- Title
- Australia's war through the lens of centenary documentary: connecting scholarly and popular histories
- Creator
- Bennett, James E.
- Relation
- Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts p. 221-239
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51520-5_13
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- A significant gulf is evident between scholarly and popular understandings of the First World War. Although it is too simplistic to summarise this as a simple binary, there are nevertheless common features of each approach to its subject matter. Popular approaches, for instance, commonly privilege emotion, and emotion without accompanying cognition significantly limits an appreciation of the war's complexities. Critical documentary has significant potential to broaden and nuance understandings by using a popular educative tool to embed scholarly approaches. This chapter analyses three examples of critical documentary from the centenary of Anzac-Why Anzac with Sam Neill, Lest We Forget What? and The War that Changed Us. It argues that the evolving form of historical documentary in these examples not only communicates revisionist scholarly interpretations, but also makes use of key devices to connect audiences to the lived experience of wartime and its impact.
- Subject
- Australia; First World War; World War I; Australian history; documentaries
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1395069
- Identifier
- uon:33808
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783319515199
- Language
- eng
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