Thread by @HerbertHistory

Welcome to a very special Historians At The Movies! Tonight we are joined with our friends in Australia for QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER starting at 8pm EST/ 12pm AEDT on @netflix & @StanAustralia! #HATM #HATMAus 1/

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If tonight is your first night, we're glad you're here! #HATM #HATMAus is the longest running watch party on twitter- Every week for over two and half years we laugh, we cry, and we historicize. But we do it as a COMMUNITY. And you're invited! 2/

Playing along is simple. Just follow me @joelgbarnes @chelseambarnett or the #HATM #HATMAus hashtags. At 8pm EST/12pmAEDT push play on QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER and tweet along, tagging your posts with #HATM #HATMAus so everyone can join in. Easy as can be! 3/

So tonight is awesome. As you know @joelgbarnes & @chelseambarnett run Historians At The Movies Australia and we've been wanting to do something together for a long time, hence tonight's show. #HATM #HATMAus 4/

So that said, I'd like to ask some questions about the West in Australia-
1) Is the American West popular in Australian memory? How is it represented?
2) Are comparative studies between the two popular there? Who should we follow? #HATM #HATMAus 5/

3) What are the best films about Australia?
4) And finally, what's for dinner or lunch?
#HATM #HATMAus 6/

I'm sitting in a hotel in Pensacola, Florida, noshing on mahi as we await the movie. I have to admit, I LOVE this movie. I've seen it probably 35 times. Tom Selleck is great in this as well as Laura SanGiacomo. And Rickman #HATM #HATMAus 7/

And I think this is a really ingenious way to address both countries' incredibly brutal histories of colonization, dispossession, and genocide. #HATM #HATMAus 8/

And....ACTION!!! #HATM #HATMAus

Something to think about: 1990 saw this and Dances With Wolves released. Both are westerns but non traditional in their critiques of settler colonialism. What does this say about audiences and their interests at the time? #HATM #HATMAus