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The Resource The great Australian race riot, (videorecording)

The great Australian race riot, (videorecording)

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The Australian Race Riot is a distinctive and enduring part of the way our country works. Major Race Riots happen here only slightly less often than we compete in the Olympics, yet they are accommodated by none of our national myths. Race Riots, while always big news at the time, inhabit only the margins of history. This series, presented by Peter FitzSimons, not only reclaims the dramatic stories, heroes and villains of tribe-on-tribe street fighting but also reframes our Race Riots as a vicious but vital part of our polity and progress. While the bashing, bleeding and bigotry of Race Riots is never great, Australians’ reaction to this kind of racial disharmony both in and after the moment has regularly transformed the country. Race Riots have sometimes brought out the best as well as the worst in us. They are a consistently revealing window into who we are. In making the case for the significance of Race Riots it’s important to distinguish them from other forms of violence and racism. Race Riots are different both from regular class clashes (the Rum Rebellion to the Bastard Boys) and the frontier wars between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. In particular, Aboriginal Race Riots are a late 20th century phenomenon. Before that black Australia fought white on a long-term basis, understanding that defeat meant death for many, dispossession for all. Indeed the recent Aboriginal Race Riots may well mark a nasty and partial kind of normalising of the country’s relationship with its indigenous peoples. The Great Australian Race Riot charts the battles and their meanings from 1846 to 2013, Irish to Muslims. Until now the riots have been named for the side of the fight less numerous and connected to power. But this series, while delving into who fought and how the battle raged, the morality of the events, also tells the story of the powerful: the soldiers, the cops, their political and economic masters
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 DVD (videodisc)
Note
  • Catalogued from container
  • Special Broadcasting Service : SBS1657
Contents
  • Episode 1 : Mob makes the nation
  • Episode 2 : Mob rule
  • Episode 3: New mob on the block
Instance
Label
The great Australian race riot
Title
The great Australian race riot
Title variation
Race riot
Contributor
Narrator
Screenwriter
Television director
Television producer
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
The Australian Race Riot is a distinctive and enduring part of the way our country works. Major Race Riots happen here only slightly less often than we compete in the Olympics, yet they are accommodated by none of our national myths. Race Riots, while always big news at the time, inhabit only the margins of history. This series, presented by Peter FitzSimons, not only reclaims the dramatic stories, heroes and villains of tribe-on-tribe street fighting but also reframes our Race Riots as a vicious but vital part of our polity and progress. While the bashing, bleeding and bigotry of Race Riots is never great, Australians’ reaction to this kind of racial disharmony both in and after the moment has regularly transformed the country. Race Riots have sometimes brought out the best as well as the worst in us. They are a consistently revealing window into who we are. In making the case for the significance of Race Riots it’s important to distinguish them from other forms of violence and racism. Race Riots are different both from regular class clashes (the Rum Rebellion to the Bastard Boys) and the frontier wars between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. In particular, Aboriginal Race Riots are a late 20th century phenomenon. Before that black Australia fought white on a long-term basis, understanding that defeat meant death for many, dispossession for all. Indeed the recent Aboriginal Race Riots may well mark a nasty and partial kind of normalising of the country’s relationship with its indigenous peoples. The Great Australian Race Riot charts the battles and their meanings from 1846 to 2013, Irish to Muslims. Until now the riots have been named for the side of the fight less numerous and connected to power. But this series, while delving into who fought and how the battle raged, the morality of the events, also tells the story of the powerful: the soldiers, the cops, their political and economic masters
Cataloging source
NPCL
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Series producer, director & writer: Sally Aitken
Dewey number
303.6230994
Intended audience
Classification : M
Language note
English. English Captions [descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired]
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PerformerNote
Presenter & narrator: Peter Fitzsimons
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Aitken, Sally
  • FitzSimons, Peter
Runtime
156
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  • Nonfiction television programs
  • Riot control
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired
  • Riots
  • Demonstrations
  • Riot control
  • Racism
  • Equality
  • Group identity
  • Documentary television programs
  • Nonfiction television programs
  • Australia
  • Australia
  • Australia
  • Australia
  • Australia
  • Australia
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Label
The great Australian race riot, (videorecording)
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Catalogued from container
  • Special Broadcasting Service : SBS1657
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Episode 1 : Mob makes the nation -- Episode 2 : Mob rule -- Episode 3: New mob on the block
Control code
000054206771
Dimensions
12 cm.
Dimensions
other
Extent
1 DVD (videodisc)
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
9322225203730
Other physical details
sound, colour
Publisher number
SBS1657
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)903300550
System details
DVD video, Dolby digital 2.0, PAL, Region all, anamorphic widescreen 16:9
Video recording format
DVD
Label
The great Australian race riot, (videorecording)
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Catalogued from container
  • Special Broadcasting Service : SBS1657
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Episode 1 : Mob makes the nation -- Episode 2 : Mob rule -- Episode 3: New mob on the block
Control code
000054206771
Dimensions
12 cm.
Dimensions
other
Extent
1 DVD (videodisc)
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
9322225203730
Other physical details
sound, colour
Publisher number
SBS1657
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)903300550
System details
DVD video, Dolby digital 2.0, PAL, Region all, anamorphic widescreen 16:9
Video recording format
DVD

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