Finding Wartime Women in Paradise Road

Carolyn Leslie looks at how Paradise Road fits in to the broader category of POW films, and how the real 'battle' in the film is fought not with guns but with music. Additional keywords: Bruce Beresford, film as text, senior secondary, WWII, World War II, Second World War, war, Australian cinema, period film, prisoners of war, combat movie, The Bridge on the River Kwai, David Lean, Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, Nagisa Oshima, Empire of the Sun, Steven Spielberg, The Railway Man, Jonathan Teplitzky, Jeanine Basinger, Japanese POW, Japanese history, gender, female characters