The Changing Anzac Legend in Three Key Australian Films

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2007-01-01

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Reynaud, Daniel; 0000-0001-6857-3874

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Abstract

With the partially reconstructed The hero of the Dardanelles (Australia, 1915, reconstruction 2005) now available for viewing at National Film and Sound Archive branches,[1] Australians can now compare our earliest Gallipoli film with two others which are commercially available: Forty thousand horsemen (Australia, 1940), and Gallipoli (Australia, 1981). An examination of these films reveals how the legend has evolved in cinema from its inception in 1915 to its heyday in the nationalist movie rhetoric of the 1980s.

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ANZAC legend , Australian film , Australian cinema , film history , First World War , Forty thousand horsemen , Gallipoli , The hero of the Dardanelles , Australian war films

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Reynaud, D. (2007). The changing Anzac legend in three key Australian films. Screening the Past, (22). Retrieved from http://tlweb.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/screeningthepast/22/anzac-legend-australian-films.html

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Screening the Past

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