At Nature's Mercy: The Contemporary Australian Western

A genre mostly associated with quintessentially American landscapes and cultural tropes, the western has developed its own fascinating tradition in Australia – most notably, since the turn of the twenty-first century. Brian McFarlane surveys a range of films from the last two decades, dealing with subjects such as bushrangers, abuse and colonial dispossession, and finds both echoes of US antecedents and new visions that blaze their own distinctive trails.

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Screens in the Classroom, Ned Kelly, The Legend of Ben Hall, The Tracker, The Proposition, Mystery Road, Goldstone, Sweet Country, Ivan Sen, Warwick Thornton, Rolf de Heer, Indigenous, The Searchers