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Acknowledgements
The writing of this book would not have been possible without the support of a number of people. I should like to thank Erin Fraser, Caroline Clark, Michelle Coles, Irina Askopian, Robyn Owens, Jamie Graham, and Patrick Beale at the University of Western Australia, the artist Stephen Jones, and the librarian Russell Hamilton at the Parliament of Western Australia. Further thanks are due to Scott McQuire at the University of Melbourne and David Tafler at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, who read early drafts of the chapters. Special thanks goes to David Tafler who supported my doctoral thesis before he, or I had known that it would furnish the basis for this book. I should also like to acknowledge Gerry Hudson at Greenwich University, London, and Mike Stevenson, John Bull, Stephen Lacey, Brian Woolland, and Alex Potts for encouraging me years ago at Bulmershe and Whiteknights, Reading University, England in the diverse fields of Film, Drama and the History of Art. My thanks also goes to the staff at Cambria Press, especially Paul Richardson for his valuable support and encouragement,