From: "David McInerney" <borderlands-AT-optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: rabbit proof fence
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:18:03 +1030


according to amazon.com the rabbit-proof fence dvd will be released in the
usa on april 15. they don't list any special features such as those
mentioned in the previous post.  the australian edition is a 2-disc set.
american buyers should be very well informed regarding their system's
capabilities before purchasing dvds from other regions.  australia uses the
pal format (like europe), and few american systems can play pal format, and
i'm pretty certain no universities or colleges would have pal playback
facilities.   the special edition would be a good teaching resource for
australasian and european schools however if dvd facilities are available.

DM



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From: "R. Weaver-Hightower" <raweav1-AT-yahoo.com>
To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: rabbit proof fence


> Hello all,
>
> I can't speak to differences between the novel
> and film or to the film/novel's teachability--but
> we checked out the DVD recently and it does come
> with educational materials that one can
> download--including reprints of Australian media
> reviews of it (pro and con) that would be most
> interesting in class discussion.  I'm considering
> using it in my teaching.
>
> Rebecca
>
> PS:  We checked out the DVD in Australia--not
> sure if it's out in the US yet.
>
> --- Anita Palathingal <palata01-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> > All I know is from the recently released
> > Miramax movie
> > called Rabbit Proof Fence--- about the practice
> > in
> > Australia of taking away aboriginal kids from
> > their
> > parents and "breeding the colour out of them"
> > over
> > generations to turn them white. A department
> > for the
> > Protection of Aborigines (not sure what the
> > name is
> > exactly) ran this operation.  The movie is the
> > true
> > story of three children who escaped to return
> > home to
> > their mother. This breeding scheme was brought
> > to end
> > in Australia, believe it or not, only in 1973.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- deleuze oedipus rimbaud
> > <rimbaudboyo-AT-yahoo.ca>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello, I dont know anything of this book nor
> > have I
> > > hear about it. What
> > > is it, and what does it do? Thanks.
> > >  hsmyth-AT-watarts.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Has anyone on the list taught Doris
> > Pilkington's
> > > "Follow the Rabbit-Proof
> > > Fence"? How did it work in the classroom? And
> > is the
> > > Miramax 2002 publication
> > > of it simply a new edition, or is it a
> > screenplay
> > > version of the novel?
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance for your help. Please
> > respond
> > > off-list.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Heather Smyth
> > > Assistant Professor
> > > Department of English
> > > University of Waterloo
> > > (519) 885-1211 ext 6027
> > >
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> ====> Dr. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
> Michigan State University
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