Hollywood Down Under, Australians at the Movies: 1896 to the Present Day

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The social history of the movies in Australia from the first, shaky days in the 1890s, through the hectic boom of the silent era, to the talkies, the Depression slump, the outstanding resurgence of film going during WWII, the cinema's struggle with television and video and above all the domination of Hollywood in Australian mainstream cinema.