Picturing a golden age: September and Australian Rules
In two Australian coming-of-age feature films, Australian Rules and September, the central young characters hold idyllic notions about friendship and equality that prove to be the keys to transformative on-screen behaviours. Intimate intersubjectivity, deployed in the close relationships between the...
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| description | In two Australian coming-of-age feature films, Australian Rules and September, the central young characters hold idyllic notions about friendship and equality that prove to be the keys to transformative on-screen behaviours. Intimate intersubjectivity, deployed in the close relationships between the indigenous and nonindigenous protagonists, generates multiple questions about the value of normalised adult interculturalism. I suggest that the most pointed significance of these films lies in the compromises that the young adults make. As they reach the inevitable moral crisis that awaits them on the cusp of adulthood, despite pressures to abandon their childhood friendships they instead sustain their utopian (golden) visions of the future. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-37aaebc6f4c140bc8cee44e45f9518872022-12-22T00:50:18ZengUniversity College CorkAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media2009-40782013-08-0155973https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.5.04Picturing a golden age: September and Australian RulesPauline Marsh0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2628University of TasmaniaIn two Australian coming-of-age feature films, Australian Rules and September, the central young characters hold idyllic notions about friendship and equality that prove to be the keys to transformative on-screen behaviours. Intimate intersubjectivity, deployed in the close relationships between the indigenous and nonindigenous protagonists, generates multiple questions about the value of normalised adult interculturalism. I suggest that the most pointed significance of these films lies in the compromises that the young adults make. As they reach the inevitable moral crisis that awaits them on the cusp of adulthood, despite pressures to abandon their childhood friendships they instead sustain their utopian (golden) visions of the future.http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue5/HTML/ArticleMarsh.htmlaustralian rulesseptemberintimateintersubjectivityadultinterculturalismcoming-of-ageidyllicindigenouscompromiseutopian |
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