- Title
- Rabbit Proof Fence
- Creator
- Butler, Kathy
- Relation
- Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand p. 22-25
- Relation
- http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/The%20arts/Film%20TV%20%20radio/Television/Making%20Film%20and%20Television%20Histories%20Australia%20and%20New%20Zealand.aspx
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Based on the book Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence (1996) by Doris Pilkington Garimara, the film Rabbit Proof Fence traces the extraordinary story of three young girls, Molly, Daisy and Gracie, who were removed from their family in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. In an epic journey, they attempt to walk more than 1500km 'home', with the threat of capture dogging their movements. More broadly, the film can be contextualised in the often-fearful environment engendered by various forms of Aboriginal Protection legislation enacted across Australia, which targeted the removal of 'mixed-race' Aboriginal children and facilitated the agenda of assimilation. While the stories of these children, referred to as the Stolen Generations, continue to appear across a range of creative and academic mediums, Rabbit Proof Fence remains one of the most significant and celebrated representations of this period.
- Subject
- Rabbit Proof Fence; Stolen Generations; White Australia; Indigenous Australians
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062107
- Identifier
- uon:17041
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781848859449
- Language
- eng
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