Cinéma Vérité?
Cinéma Vérité? Australian Film, Young Lebanese- Australian Men and the Performance of Identity Lisa Thompson University of Sydney Cinéma Vérité? Australian Film, Young Lebanese-Australian Men and the Performance of Identity Lisa Thompson A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours Department of Sociology and Social Policy University of Sydney, 2009 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As anyone who has been involved is no doubt aware, this magnum opus has been a labour of love, marked by roadblocks at almost every turn. I would firstly like to acknowledge and thank those who generously gave of their time and of themselves in contributing to the research, for without you, this project would never have eventuated. Special thanks must go to the fantastic people at BYDS, who dedicated many hours to facilitating the research process, and were crucial to gaining access to the community. I am also indebted to my supervisor, Dr Rebecca Scott Bray. I hope upon hope that this year has not turned her off Honours supervision for life, and am eternally grateful for the tireless input, laughs and support that saw the project through to completion. Finally, and most importantly, I want to thank my partner Tom; in a way, this is his thesis too, because he has shared with me every minute of the joy, exhilaration, and heartache of the Honours process, and kept me sane for the duration. 3 ABSTRACT Australian popular media has stereotyped young Lebanese-Australian men as ‘violent misogynists’; subsequently, young Lebanese-Australian men have been criminalised as the deviant ethnic ‘other’.
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