{"product_id":"sheep-and-the-australian-cinema-deb-verhoeven-9780522852394","title":"Sheep and the Australian Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this highly readable study of Australian cinema, Deb Verhoeven explores the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history that are linked by a common thread; the repeated image of sheep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVerhoeven focuses on two key 'sheep films': The Squatter's Daughter (Hall, 1933) and Bitter Springs (Smart, 1950). Both movies are concerned with the national project, in which sheep growing and nation building are seamlessly aligned. But Verhoeven artfully demonstrates that it is precisely in their emphasis on textual re-iteration and repetition that the sheep films critique an otherwise ostensibly 'national' vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the process Verhoeven sheds new light on the importance and implication of discourses of originality in the Australian cinema. 'Truthfully I will never see these films in quite the same way again; it is in the best sense a strangely compelling and unsettling book.' Professor Tom O'Regan, University of Queensland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deb Verhoeven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0522852394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780522852394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Melbourne University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Deb Verhoeven","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065007812863,"sku":"9780522852394","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55563112-a65a-49b5-8c6f-38478d6b2c21.jpg?v=1768672522","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sheep-and-the-australian-cinema-deb-verhoeven-9780522852394","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}