Stephen Alomes
Autore di When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain
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Stephen Alomes is a senior lecturer in Australian Studies at Deakin University.
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‘The Lie of the Ground: Aesthetics and Australian… di Stephen Alomes
Alomes argues in this article that ‘the Australian game should be seen as a cultural form of significance and even as an art’. He discusses the cultural divide between the arts and sport and explores a wide range of artistic and intellectual expressions relating to football covering such forms as novels, plays, poetry, fine arts, music, films and dance and song by the Tiwi people in the Northern Territory. Online journal article accessed 13 August 2016. rel="nofollow" target="_top">http://www.doubledialogues.com… (altro)
This piece examines the 2004 decision by the ABC to remove state based sports presenters from prime time television news bulletins in Melbourne and Adelaide. Alomes places this decision within a larger context of a string of decisions from the 1980s onwards to downgrade state based ABC programming and to run more ‘national’ based programs from Sydney. This situation is then considered in the context of Melbourne’s sporting culture, particularly regarding Australian Rules football.
A diverse collection of essays examining various cultural and social aspects of Australian Rules football. Some of the individual chapters are annotated in this section, and are listed under author names.
Alomes presents an interesting account of Melbourne's real 'spring festival', the footy finals. He explores how much the finals fever and its associated off-field rituals have grown out of an authentic popular spirit, subsequently re-invented by the AFL, the media and marketers. Meticulous and comprehensive references provide a useful chronology of modern Grand Final week traditions and rituals.
Review by Tim Hogan
Review by Tim Hogan
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