A cultural affair to remember: nostalgia, whiteness and migration in Love's Brother

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Carniel, Jessica. 2009. "A cultural affair to remember: nostalgia, whiteness and migration in Love's Brother." Studies in Australasian Cinema. 3 (1), pp. 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1386/sac.3.1.93/1
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A cultural affair to remember: nostalgia, whiteness and migration in Love's Brother

ERA Journal ID35827
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AuthorCarniel, Jessica
Journal TitleStudies in Australasian Cinema
Journal Citation3 (1), pp. 93-105
Number of Pages13
Year2009
Place of PublicationAbingdon, OX. United Kingdom
ISSN1750-3175
1750-3183
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1386/sac.3.1.93/1
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Caught in what one reviewer described as an 'Italo-Australian Brigadoon' (Hall), Love's Brother is largely removed from the socio-political context in which it is set and also that in which it was made. By placing Love's Brother back into this context, this chapter analyses the film's problematic representation of Australia's migrant past and its relationship to current issues regarding migration, memory, race and ethnicity. It focuses upon the political implications of nostalgia in imagining migrant narratives of the past, arguing that this reveals more about current attitudes to migrants and migration. Specifically, it examines how the film 'white-washes' elements of Italian Australian history in order to reflect the ethnic group's current standing in broader Australian society, as well as the possibilities and problems this may hold for newer migrant and refugee communities in contemporary Australia.

Keywordsmigration; ethnicity; race; memory; multiculturalism; Italian Australian; second generation
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020430302. Australian history
441013. Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
470214. Screen and media culture
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