Diasporic Subjectivity in Contemporary Australian Documentary: Travel, History and the Televisual Representation of Trauma

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[1] The movements that Renov refers to include the women's movement, the civil rights movement, identity politics (including exilic identity) and gay rights activism. While many of these examples are located in a US or French context they are also inseparable from international political or revolutionary movements of the time.

[2] While the term filmmaker usually refers to the director, in the cases of diasporic documentary the narration is often actualizing the writer's, or co-writers' experiences.

[3] It is certainly the case that not all migrant narratives are characterized by hardship or suffering but, frequently, those that are provide the most compelling scripts and survive the rigorous expectations of film funding regimes.

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Belinda Smaill

Belinda Smaill is a lecturer in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University. She teaches in the areas of film and television studies and her research interests include Australian film and television, diaspora studies and the politics of documentary film.