Popular culture -- History -- 20th century

Scope and Contents Sectioned off within the folder is a collection of handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, publication release forms and both the original and photocopies sheet music for ‘Billjim’s Aussie Song’ by Meta Maclean. The collection is primarily focused on popular culture and folklore of world war periods. The publication date range is c. 1926-2007. The subject matter date range is c. 1914-2008. Separate to this subcollection is a series of email correspondence between LC and...

Summary of contents A collection of printed articles that analyse popular culture and media. Major themes of the collection include technological developments in film, film industry economics, gender in film, culture in film, psychology of the audience, entertainment as a part of social development and globalising American entertainment. The articles are most often from either the Journal of Popular Film and Television or the ‘Wide Angle’ publication. The publication date range is 1978-1999. The subject matter...

Summary of contents A collection of material to be used towards LC’s guest lecture for ENGL 231 (2004, 2005, 2007, 2010) at Victoria University. Includes printed poetry, handwritten notes, typed script, correspondence and both the original and photocopies of the offer of casual employment. The lecture content is an analysis of the language, humour, sexism and racism that can be found in World War poetry and song. It also analyses the relationship between these forms of media with popular culture and their...

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Contains the single printed article of O’Regan, Tom, ‘The Man from Snowy River and Australian Pop Culture’ in Tom O’Regan and Albert Meran eds., An Australian Film Reader, (Sydney: Currency Press, 1985). The article was printed from the Murdoch University ‘Reading Room’ archive on July 19, 2002.

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A collection of printed articles that analyse the relationship between films and their audiences. Major themes of the collection include “the creation of movie fan culture”, the ‘American Dream’ and the notion of ‘rags to riches’, historiography of pop culture research, immobility of women in earlier film-making, and the relationship between socio-politics and film. The publication date range is 1970-1996. The subject matter incudes dates between c. 1892-1981.