Other People's Stories: Reproducing History in 'The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith'

Zoë Wallin revisits Fred Schepisi's 1978 film about a young Indigenous man's mistreatment and descent into murder, looking at the work's status as historicisation, literary adaptation and product of its time.

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Film as Text, Thomas Keneally, Australian New Wave, Aboriginal, Jimmy Governor, AO Neville, Vietnam War, identity, authorship, Clare Britton