The Girl with the Bush Knife: Women, Adventure and the Tropics in Age of Consent and Nim’s Island

The Girl with the Bush Knife: Women, Adventure and the Tropics in Age of Consent and Nim’s Island

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Our paper broadly concerns the distinction of our cinematic heroines, Cora in Age of Consent (dir. Michael Powell 1969) and Nim of Nim’s Island (d. Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, 2008), from the more typical ‘bush women’ of Australian cinema and literature. The figure of our title, the ‘girl with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Allison Craven, Chris Mann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2010-12-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Subjects:
cinematic heroines
age of consent
nim's island
mermaid
tropical waters
androgynous
female characters
tropical place
symbology of eden
north queensland
tropical australia
australian cinema
film
Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3421/3359

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