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Title: Archival footage and storytelling in 'The trouble with Merle'
Related: Summer Film Symposium (30 - 31 July 2004 : Maine, USA)
Related: The Moving image as biography : 2004 Summer Film Symposium
Related: http://www.oldfilm.org/symp_2004_trouble_merle
Related: http://www.oldfilm.org/files/image/04Symp_Delofski.pdf
Publisher: Bucksport, ME : Northeast Historic Film
Date: 2004
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 190204 Film and Television
Author/Creator: Delofski, Maree
Description: This presentation is an account of my approach to visualising and structuring some elements of the research underpinning my recent television documentary film The Trouble with Merle (2002) about Merle Oberon, the Hollywood star of the 1930s and 40s. The film unpicks the competing stories and claims made by different groups for Oberon’s ethnicity and nationality: that she was either born in India of Anglo-Indian ancestry or that she was Tasmanian-born of Chinese ancestry. In the process of uncovering these stories, the film reflects on celebrity and memory and the way in which racism can shape a life.
Description: 17 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 190204 Film and Television
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Media

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