On the basis of box office receipts, Baz Luhrmann's film Strictly Ballroom is one of the ten most popular Australian films of all time. Below you can download an essay on narrative structure in Strictly Ballroom which attempts to explain some of the reasons for its popularity.
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September 28, 2009
September 17, 2008
September 16, 2008
A Summary of Cloudstreet
Below you can download a summary of Tim Winton's novel Cloudstreet. This summary is not meant as a substitute for reading the novel. Rather it is intended as an aid in helping you to find significant parts of the novel. It provides a section by section listing, with a summary of key events in that section. Where a section does not, in my opinion, contain any key events, I have left that section blank.
September 10, 2008
Othello as Tragedy
In the article which you can download below, I argue that Othello's tragedy can be seen as residing in his subscription to pernicious racial and gender ideologies. What I have tried to do in this article is bring together traditional approaches - Othello as tragedy - and more recent approaches which focus on representations of race and gender.
August 08, 2008
Race and Ethnicity in Othello
Othello is one of Shakespeare's greatest and most complex plays. Its representation of race and ethncity are especially fruitful areas of analysis. Below you can download a set of notes on the representation of race and ethnicity in Othello.
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