The Tracker Strikes B(l)ack: The Uses of ‘Black Tracker’ in Australian Film
Az MTA VEAB Nyelv-és Irodalomtudományi Szakbizottságának Angol Munkabizottsága, valamint a Pannon Egyetem MFTK Angol-Amerikai Intézete tisztelettel meghívja Önt következő előadására.
Időpont: 2021. május 5. (szerda) 12.00 óra
Helyszín: online
Előadó: Martina Horakova(PhD) assistant professor (Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Abstract: The talk will introduce one of the most iconic figures of recent Australian film, the Black Tracker, whose shadowy presence looms large in Australian imagination as a recurrent symbol of colonial history. While the earlier representations depicted these trackers as guides to white explorers and later as sinister membersof Native Police, at the turn of the 21stcentury the trope of Black Tracker has been appropriated to signify more ambivalent meanings, intervening into larger debates about national identity, racial politics, and settler-Indigenous Reconciliation. I willdiscuss two well-known and critically acclaimed films, The Tracker(2002, dir. Rolf de Heer) and One Night the Moon(2001, dir. Rachel Perkins), to demonstrate how the figure of the Black Tracker is employed to comment on national spatial anxieties and tochallenge settler belonging.
Az előadásra az alábbi linken lehet kapcsolódni:
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98879496194?pwd=Y3JYMjQvb2tWbUlqVVo1ajdDUjh3QT09
Meeting ID: 988 7949 6194
Passcode: 766016