Making It National: Nationalism and Australian popular culture

Graeme Turner

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Country
Australia
Published
1 October 1994
Pages
200
ISBN
9781863737227

Making It National: Nationalism and Australian popular culture

Graeme Turner

Making it National argues that we need to rethink the way national identity is constructed in Australia today. Graeme Turner takes a series of recent instances - the mythologising of Bond and the larrikin entrepreneurs, the Spycatcher trials, Maralinga and the Bicentenary - showing how popular images of national identity are used to serve specific rather than national interests.

‘Graeme Turner’s writing has a remarkable power to engage its readers with all the immediacy, vividness and drama of our very best journalism, while putting cultural theory to work in new and creative ways.’ - Meaghan Morris

‘Making it National could be to the 1990s what Richard White’s Inventing Australia was to the 1980s.’ - Tony Bennett, Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Griffith University

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