This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.

Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Australia's Embrace of Colonial Modernity; 1. 'The Home of the Blizzard': Douglas Mawson's Synchronized Lecture Entertainment; 2. Guided Spectatorship: Exhibiting the Great War; 3. Touring the Nation: Shackleton's 'Marvellous Moving Pictures' and the Australian Season of 'In the Grip of the Polar Pack-Ice'; 4. Entr'acte: 'Sir Ross Smith's Flight', Aerial Vision and Colonial Modernity; 5. Colonial Modernity and Its Others: 'Pearls and Savages' as a Multi-media Project; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Robert Dixon is professor of Australian literature at the University of Sydney. He is a general editor in Sydney University Press' Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series.