The Girl with the Bush Knife: Women, Adventure and the Tropics in Age of Consent and Nim’s Island
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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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James Cook University
2010-12-01
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| Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3421/3359 |