Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television

2026/02/15 by Annabel Cooper · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Australian History and Society #Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism #Cinema and Media Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/1031461x.2026.2625270

openalex publication_date 2026/02/15 · openalex created_date 2026/02/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Writing about history on film, and the history of historical film, are closely interconnected fields and best done together, making for considerable disciplinary demands: familiarity with the histo...

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• Annabel Cooper reviews ‘Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television’ by James Findlay. Published by Bloomsbury. doi.org/10.1080/1031... [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]

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