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Fighting through their filmwork: the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit
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Fighting through their filmwork: the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit

Lisa Milner
The Hummer, Vol.4(2), pp.37-49
2004
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Abstract

Film and Media Studies

This essay examines the origins and development of a radical Australian film unit of the Cold War, the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit (WWFFU). With the active support of the Communist-led Waterside Workers’ Federation, it arose in the 1950s in response to the repressive policies of a conservative government.

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