Cinematic poetics and reclaiming history: Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time as legacy

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dc.contributor.authorElphick, Jeremy
dc.contributor.editorTofighian, Omiden
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-10T13:48:31Z
dc.date.available2019-12-10T13:48:31Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAustralia’s brutal legacy of offshore detention has been marked by tragedy, human rights abuses and international condemnation, framed within an overarching failure to reach any true resolution. The difference between Australia’s two major political parties’ approach to immigration policy has been largely cosmetic and there is little tangible difference between the actual policies they have implemented and sustained. Human Rights Watch bluntly diagnosed Australia as having “serious unresolved human rights problems”, calling the conditions on Manus and Nauru “abysmal” (Giakoumelos). This paper examines the process by which successive Australian governments have advocated and implemented border and immigration policies and, more specifically, how control of information has been a central tactic in defining how such policies are perceived by the public. There is a questionable disconnect between Australia’s political class and those targeted by the immigration policies it sustains. Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time (Boochani and Kamali Sarvestani 2017) captures the cruelty of Australia’s offshore detention policy, while intimately mapping the emotional and psychological experience of living in detention. Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time marks a fundamental shift, blunting attempts to dehumanise those in detention from a distance, while highlighting the moral crisis that this dehumanisation has created.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationElphick, J. (2019) 'Cinematic poetics and reclaiming history: Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time as legacy', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 18, pp. 199-204. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.18.18en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.18.18
dc.identifier.endpage204
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued18
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage199
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9397
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue18/Dossier2Elphick.pdf
dc.rights© 2019, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectHistoryen
dc.subjectRefugeesen
dc.subjectDetentionen
dc.subjectAustralian politicsen
dc.subjectHuman rightsen
dc.titleCinematic poetics and reclaiming history: Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time as legacyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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