- Title
- Strike me lucky : Social difference and consumer culture in Roy Rene’s only film
- Creator
- Speed, Lesley
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/31662
- Identifier
- vital:3496
- Identifier
- http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10044/20100613-0004/www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/26/strike-me-lucky.html
- Identifier
- ISSN:1328-9756
- Abstract
- Strike Me Lucky (Australia 1934) presents an imaginative view of Australian society and consumer culture in the 1930s. The only film starring vaudeville star Roy Rene, it has been largely dismissed because of its poor box office performance and perceived artistic failure. Yet Strike Me Lucky is significant for centring on a prominent Jewish Australian comedian and for being an early screen example of Australian ethnic humour. The film’s diverse view of Australian society undermines perceptions of the 1930s as culturally homogeneous and Anglocentric. Its depiction of a modern consumer culture reflects upon Australia’s relationship to Hollywood and modern capitalism.
- Publisher
- LaTrobe University
- Relation
- Screening the Past Vol. 26, no. (2009), p.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright LaTrobe University
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media; 2103 Historical Studies; Strike Me Lucky (Motion picture); Film; Roy Rene; Motion pictures; Ethnicity; Australia
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