Making It National: Nationalism and Australian Popular Culture

by Graeme Turner

Making it National argues that we need to rethink the way national identity is constructed in Australia today. Graeme Turner takes a series of recent instances - the mythologising of Bond and the larrikin entrepreneurs, the Spycatcher trials, Maralinga and the Bicentenary - showing how popular images of national identity are used to serve specific rather than national interests.

'Graeme Turner's writing has a remarkable power to engage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367718650
• ISBN13: 9780367718657
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages