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Cultural Depictions Of Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly was a 19th-century Australian bushranger and outlaw whose life has inspired numerous works in the arts and popular culture, especially in his home country, where he is viewed by some as a Robin Hood-like figure. Theatre A melodrama, ''The Kelly Gang (Denham play), The Kelly Gang'', by Arnold Denham, was popular in Australia in the late 1890s. Other plays inspired by the story include: *''Ned Kelly (play), Ned Kelly'' by Douglas Stewart (poet), Douglas Stewart (first produced for radio in 1942, and on stage from the mid-1940s) *''Kelly (play), Kelly'' by Matthew Ryan (writer), Matthew Ryan *''Catching the Kellys'' by J. Pickersgill (1879) *''Ostracized'' by E.C. Martin (1881) *''The Kelly Gang'' by Dan Berry *''The Career of Ned Kelly and The Ironclad Bushrangers of Australia'' by Arnold Denham *''Outlaw Kelly'' by Lancelot Booth (1899) *''Ned Kelly'' by Harry Leader and Bernard Espinasse *''Ned Kelly'' by James Clancy. Joan Littlewood production, Theatre Royal Stratford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Centre For The Moving Image (6476611781)
ACMI, formerly the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, is Australia's national museum of screen culture including film, television, videogames, digital culture and art. ACMI was established in 2002 and is based at Federation Square in Melbourne, Victoria. ACMI features a range of curated exhibitions as well as a permanent exhibition, ''The Story of the Moving Image.'' It also provides a regular program film screenings and events, a library and online collection of film and video and an education program. History Beginnings in the State Film Centre of Victoria Prior to ACMI, Victoria's main film and screen organisation was the State Film Centre of Victoria, based at Treasury Theatre, which was established in 1946.ACMI ''About Us''. Retrieved 28 February 2015. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helpmann Awards
The Helpmann Awards are accolades for live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001. The annual awards recognise achievements in the disciplines of musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre. Over forty awards are given to productions, festivals and concerts, and for individuals for their work in performance, direction, choreography, lighting, sound, music, costume and scenic design. They are named in honour of ballet dancer, choreographer, director and actor Sir Robert Helpmann. The awards are the Australian equivalent of the United States' Tony Awards for Broadway theatre and the United Kingdom's Laurence Olivier Awards for West End theatre. The Helpmann Awards were last awarded in 2019. LPA cancelled the 2020 and 2021 awards due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No public statement has been made for subsequent years. History The Help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner of the Booker Prize receives , as well as international publicity that usually leads to a significant sales boost. When the prize was created, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014, eligibility was widened to any English-language novel—a change that proved controversial. A five-person panel consisting of authors, publishers and journalists, as well as politicians, actors, artists and musicians, is appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation each year to choose the winning book. Gaby Wood has been the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation since 2015. A high-profile liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True History Of The Kelly Gang
''True History of the Kelly Gang'' is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and a variation on the Ned Kelly story. Plot summary Ned Kelly begins his autobiography with a description of his father, John "Red" Kelly, an Irishman transported to Van Diemen's Land and eventually settling in the colony of Victoria, Australia. After marrying Ned's mother Ellen (née Quinn), the Kellys settle in Avenel, a rural area northeast of Melbourne. Red Kelly is shown to have numerous brushes with the colonial police forces, resulting in his imprisonment and death when his son Ned was twelve years of age. After the rest of the family resettles in northeast Victoria under the Land Grant Act, Ned's mother attempts to provide for her childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Carey (novelist)
Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. He is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for '' Oscar and Lucinda'', and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for '' True History of the Kelly Gang''. In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times, and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film '' Until the End of the World'' with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. Early life and career: 1943–1970 Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943. His parents ran a Holden de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heath Ledger
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, he moved to the United States in 1998 to further develop his film career. His work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres, including ''10 Things I Hate About You'' (1999), ''The Patriot (2000 film), The Patriot'' (2000), ''A Knight's Tale'' (2001), ''Monster's Ball'' (2001), ''Casanova (2005 film), Casanova'' (2005), ''Lords of Dogtown'' (2005), ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005), ''Candy (2006 film), Candy'' (2006), ''I'm Not There'' (2007), ''The Dark Knight'' (2008), and ''The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'' (2009), the latter two of which were posthumously released. He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director. For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Ang Lee's ''Brokeback Mountain,'' he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, BAFTA Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Kelly (2003 Film)
''Ned Kelly'' is a 2003 bushranger film based on Robert Drewe's 1991 novel ''Our Sunshine''. Directed by Gregor Jordan, the film's film adaptation, adapted screenplay was written by John Michael McDonagh. The film dramatises the life of Ned Kelly, a legendary bushranger and outlaw who was active mostly in the colony of Victoria. In the film, Kelly, his brother Dan Kelly (bushranger), Dan, and two other associates—Steve Hart and Joe Byrne—form a gang of bushrangers in response to acts of police brutality. Heath Ledger stars in the title role, with Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts and Geoffrey Rush. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $6 million worldwide. Plot After saving a young boy from drowning and being awarded a "hero sash" at the age of ten, Ned Kelly grows up in the colony of Victoria where he was born. The son of a Catholic Irish settler, he lives with his widowed mother Ellen, his younger brother Dan Kelly (bushranger), Dan, and his two younger sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Drewe
Robert Duncan Drewe (born 9 January 1943) is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer. Biography Robert Drewe was born on 9 January 1943 in Melbourne, Victoria. At the age of six, he moved with his family to Perth. He grew up on the West Australian coast and was educated at Hale School. He joined ''The West Australian'' as a cadet reporter. Three years later he was recruited by ''The Age'', where he became Sydney chief at the age of 21, later Literary Editor of ''The Australian''.Murray WaldrenRob Drewe: The Diviner(1996) Interview first published in ''The Australian Magazine''. Accessed: 11 October 2007 He was a columnist, features editor and special writer on ''The Australian'' and '' The Bulletin''. Drewe won two Walkley Awards for journalism while working for ''The Bulletin''. He was awarded a Leader Grant travel scholarship by the United States Government. During the 1970s he turned from journalism to writing fiction, beginning with ''The Savage Crows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Sunshine
''Our Sunshine'' is a 1991 novel about Ned Kelly by Australian writer Robert Drewe. It later served as a source of information for the 2003 film ''Ned Kelly'', directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts. Awards and nominations * 1992 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Fiction * 1992 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the Will (law), will of Miles Franklin ... References 1991 Australian novels Biographical novels Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Australian novels adapted into films Pan Books books Novels about bushrangers Ned Kelly {{1990s-bio-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternate History (fiction)
Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternate history stories propose "what if?" scenarios about pivotal events in human history, and present outcomes very different from the historical record. Some alternate histories are considered a subgenre of science fiction, or historical fiction. Since the 1950s, as a subgenre of science fiction, some alternative history stories have featured the tropes of time travel between histories, the psychic awareness of the existence of an alternative universe by the inhabitants of a given universe, and time travel that divides history into various timestreams. Definition Often described as a subgenre of science fiction, alternative history is a genre of fiction wherein the author speculates upon how t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Country
''Kelly Country'' is a 1983 alternative history novel by the Australian author A. Bertram Chandler. Synopsis Australian bushranger and rebel Ned Kelly leads a successful revolution against British colonial rule. The result is that Australia becomes a world power, but the Australian Republic which Kelly founded degenerates into a hereditary dictatorship. Critical reception Writing in ''Australian Book Review'' critic Yvonne Rousseau concluded: "Chandler has thoroughly researched the political and military possibilities of the period; he has dealt with misgivings as to whether Kelly had the drive to establish a dynasty of Hereditary Presidents, each one respectfully spoken of as 'the Kelly'; he has provided astonishing adventures, constant shifts of scene, and a final revelation which casts an ironic light on history–which highlights an uncertainty very few men can be immune to–and which paradoxically shows the final Kelly (the one who wiped out Hanoi with nuclear weapons) t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Theatre, Melbourne
The National Theatre is a 783-seat Australian theatre and theatrical arts school located in the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda, on the corner of Barkly and Carlisle Streets. The building was constructed in 1921 as The Victory Theatre (3000 seat cinema), rebuilt as 2550 seat cinema in 1928, finally converted to a live venue in 1972/4 with 783 seats. The stalls seating was converted to studios and rehearsal rooms for the schools. National Theatre Movement The National Theatre Movement (NTM) was established in 1935 by soprano Gertrude Johnson. After returning from an overseas career that included performing at Covent Garden, Johnson was dismayed at the lack of training and performing opportunities for Australian artists in their own country. To that end the National Theatre was founded along with a network of companies throughout Australia. The Ballarat National Theatre was founded in 1938 along with other branches in Heidelberg, Yallourn and Swan Hill. Included in the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
