Australian rules football in popular culture
Postage
Australian rules is featured on several Australian (and international) postage stamps[1] and postcards, including:
- 1974 – 7-cent stamp featuring players in a marking contest
- 1984 – Ausipex Antigua and Barbuda $5 stamp
- 1989 – 3-cent Australian sports stamp
- 1996 – 45-cent Centenary of the AFL series circulated in 1996 featuring the 16 AFL teams of the day
- 2008 – 50-cent 150 years of Australian Football depicting the first match
- 2009 – 55-cent "Let's Get Active" postage stamp also features a child kicking an Australian Rules ball
- 2012 – Australian Legends of Football, featuring Ron Barassi and Gary Ablett Jr
Literature
Barry Oakley's satiric football novel A Salute to the Great McCarthy was published in 1970.
Crime novelist Kerry Greenwood wrote the 1991 short story The Vanishing of Jock McHale's Hat.
Alan Wearne's 1997 novel Kicking in Danger is about an Essendon player turned private eye who specialises in football-related cases.[2] Football plays a major role in the 1998 novel Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne. The Call (1998), written by Martin Flanagan, is a semi-fictional account of football pioneer Tom Wills. Set during the 1970s, the 1999 novel Saturday Afternoon Fever by comedian Matthew Hardy follows a boy on weekend trips to VFL games, specifically to see his hero, St Kilda's Trevor Barker. Tony Wilson's debut novel Players (2005) satirises the relationship between football and the media.[3] In 2012, Paul D. Carter won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for his debut novel Eleven Seasons, a coming-of-age story about a teenager and the role football plays in shaping his identity.[4]
Children's books
In 2002,
Michael Wagner's Maxx Rumble Footy Series was published between 2004 and 2006.
I Want to Be a Footballer (2007) by field hockey Olympic medalist Sally Carbon follows a football fanatic from his first Auskick game.
Poetry
Swift as an eagle on the wing
Holds fast the ball, then with a sudden spring
He leaps high in the air and kicks the volume round.
The ball emits a hollow moaning sound.
Obedient to this hero's skillful care,
The football rushes whistling through the air
Then—as a bomb, by blazing powder thrown
High in mid-air, when rapid it has flown
Describes a curving parabola there—
So turns the ball its bending course and fair.
It falls, and far beyond the 'true-blues' base.
With many abound it stops its headlong race.
—
"A Friendly Game of Football" was published in Edward Dyson's first volume of poetry, Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines, in 1896.[6] Dyson also wrote football poems for Punch.[7] C. J. Dennis wrote "The Barracker" in 1922.[7]
Football is a recurring theme in Mark O'Connor's poetry. He published numerous football poems in Quadrant, such as "Melbourne Visit: The Game" (1976) and "For Doug Wade" (1977).[7] In 1991 he published "The 1990 AFL Grand Final in Beijing (for Manning Clark)".[7]
Alan Wearne's 1976 poetry volume New Devil, New Parish begins with the football poem "Go On, Tell Me the Season Is Over". His 2002 poem "Bourke Street on Saturday Night" is written from the perspective of 19th-century Essendon footballer Charlie "Tracker" Forbes.[7]
Philip Hodgins wrote "Country Football" in 1986.[7] His 1990 book A Kick of the Footy contains nine poems on the theme of kicking a football, with titles such as "Flat Punt", "Snap Shot" and "Kicking into Danger".[7]
Michael Leunig wrote "The Absolute Grand Final" in 1992.[7]
Damian Balassone often employs football themes, such as in the poem "The Half-Back Flankers", which appears in the collection Strange Game in a Strange Land:
- We strive to run the lines until
- the opposition breaks.
- Imagination is the name
- we give to our mistakes.[9]
Theatre
Ballet
"If you add the element of danger to dance, then you're getting close to Australian football."
— Martin Flanagan, And the Big Men Dance[10]
Many writers have seen artistic qualities in the physicality of Australian rules football. Historian Manning Clark described the game as "poetry in motion", and compared the aerobic athleticism of the players to that of ballet dancers.[11] Ballet critic John Cargher devoted the introduction of his book Opera and Ballet in Australia (1977) to the aesthetic similarities between ballet and Australian football.[12] The sport has also captured the imagination of ballet dancers and choreographers, influencing major works in the canon of Australian ballet.
Tasmanian choreographer
Plays and musicals
All Saints' Day is a football-themed musical written by Don Battye and scored by Peter Pinne. The story centres on the St Kilda Football Club's fight for the premiership with subplots involving supporters and a Miss Mascot competition. The musical premiered in 1960 at the National Theatre in St Kilda.
Goodbye Ted, co-authored in 1975 by
The Club was written by David Williamson in 1977. Williamson revisited football with the 2012 play Managing Carmen.
Themes of football under threat from corporatism are explored in
Comedian Damian Callinan's 2000 one man play Sportsman's Night was inspired by the real life events of a regional football club banned by their local league for on and off field violence. Callinan revisited the dysfunctional Bodgy Creek Football Club in the 2010 sequel The Merger.[19] A feature film version was produced in 2018, accompanied by the Bodgy Creek Football Club podcast, and then in 2020 the Bodgy Creek Community Podcast, which included regular updates on Caxton Valley League games.
Glenn Manton's comedy show The Spray (2008) satirises AFL coaching methods.[20]
The lives of several real-life footballers have been dramatised on stage. The Call (2004) is an adaptation by Bruce Myles of Martin Flanagan's 1996 novel of the same name.[10] With football-inspired choreography by Koori dancers, the play explores the life of football pioneer Tom Wills and his relationship with aborigines.[10][21] Krakouer! depicts the rise of Indigenous footballing brothers Jim and Phil Krakouer. It was developed by playwright Reg Cribb in 2009 from Sean Gorman's 2005 novel Brotherboys.
Music
Anthems and novelty songs
Many songs inspired by the game have become anthems of the game. Jack O'Hagan wrote "Our Aussie Game" in 1949.[22] Mike Brady's 1979 hit "Up There Cazaly" went on to become Australia's highest selling single. Brady built on its success with "One Day in September" (1980) and numerous other football-themed songs. In 1996, singer-songwriter Kevin Johnson reworked his 1973 hit "Rock and Roll" as "Aussie Rules (I Thank You for the Best Years of Our Lives)". It was the official AFL Centenary song.[23] Models member James Freud performed "One Tony Lockett", an ode to Tony Lockett, at the SCG,[24] and released Today's Legends of AFL Football as James Freud and the Reserves.
Football humorists the
Several footballers have pursued music careers with varying levels of commercial success. Known for his goal-kicking ability and mop-top hairstyle,
Popular music
I go to the football to cheer for my team,
I go to the football to hear myself scream.
— Dave Warner, "Suburban Boy"
Perth singer
Football references are rife in the output of the anonymous alternative rock band
Singer-songwriter Paul Kelly's 1987 single "Leaps and Bounds" is about the excitement of walking to the MCG for a game at the start of the football season.[3][31] In reviewing the song for the book 1001 Songs, critic Toby Creswell listed "Melbourne, football, transcendence and memory" among the "grand themes" of Kelly's ouvre.[38] Kelly played the song at the 2012 AFL Grand Final.[39]
"The Swans Return" (1987) by folk rock band Weddings Parties Anything (WPA) expresses a South Melbourne fan's grief at the club's move to Sydney.[35] "Under the Clocks" from Roaring Days (1988) chronicles a teenager's jaunt in Melbourne. He sees a boy in a Collingwood guernsey who "hums a tune I've learnt to hate so well", and asks a girl "Is there anywhere you'd rather be than with me at the MCG? / And if the Saints get done again, by Christ, I couldn't care."[40] "Tough Time (In the Old Town Tonight)", released on No Show Without Punch (1990), is about spousal abuse after a Collingwood loss. WPA's 1992 single "Monday's Experts" describes the "post-mortem debates" following weekend football.[3] It was used as the theme song for Talking Footy.[41]
WPA frontman
In 1993, Indigenous singer-songwriter Archie Roach penned "Colour of Your Jumper" after witnessing Nicky Winmar famously raise his guernsey in response to racial taunts at Victoria Park. Roach performed the song at the 2013 Dreamtime at the 'G.[45]
Hailing from
Football songs have been written and performed for
Visual arts
What I saw of it struck me as the fastest game I have ever seen. ... The science of the Victorian game of football may be too quick for a stranger to grasp at first sight, or an artist to depict with justice.
— Harry Furniss, Irish illustrator, 1888[51]
As early as the 1860s, engravings and illustrations of Australian football matches appeared in local newspapers and picturesque atlases including the Australasian Sketcher, the Australian Pictorial Weekly, and the Illustrated Australian News. Australian artists have continued to explore many aspects of football, from the game's speed, energy and dynamism, to its role as a binding force for various communities.[3]
Cartoons
Early exponents of football cartooning include
Sam Wells published daily football cartoons in The Herald and The Age. During the
Painting
Modern
I have painted aspects of the game and will no doubt paint more, as football is a reflection of modern values and violence.
Nolan's Melbourne peers,
Known for his semi-abstract paintings of the
Contemporary
Many Indigenous Australian artists have explored football and the role it plays in the social and cultural fabric of their communities.
Indigenous artist Ian Abdulla painted numerous football paintings.[66]
In 2008, Australian painter and former Fitzroy footballer Jamie Cooper was commissioned by the AFL to capture the history of Australian rules. His painting titled The Game That Made Australia was unveiled on the 150th anniversary of the origins of Australian rules football, and is on display in the foyer of AFL House at Docklands Stadium.[67]
Sculpture
Statues and other
In 1995, a statue of Ted Whitten was erected outside Whitten Oval.[71] Located at Punt Road Oval is a 3-metre bronze statue of Jack Dyer. It is modelled after an iconic photograph of Dyer taken during the 1944 Preliminary Final in which Richmond defeated Essendon, primarily due to Dyer's VFL finals record of nine goals.[72] A statue of Collingwood legend Bob Rose stands outside the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre.[73]
Famous spectacular marks have been immortalised in heroic sculpture. A statue by Robert Hitchcock of South Fremantle's John Gerovich taking a specky in the 1956 WANFL Preliminary Final stands outside Fremantle Oval in Fremantle, Western Australia,[74] and a bronze statue of Essendon great John Coleman's 1953 specky against Fitzroy at Windy Hill was unveiled in Coleman's hometown of Hastings, Victoria.[75]
Football has been depicted in
In the mid-1990s, artist
In 2007,
Photography
Photographer Grant Hobson has explored themes of Australian mateship and masculinity through amateur football. Footballer 21 (1988), part of Hobson's Transcending Toughness series, was included in the major touring exhibition Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901–2001.[79] Several established photographers have produced photographic essays on grassroots football culture in remote communities. Throughout the early 2000s, Melbourne documentary photographer Jesse Marlow attended Indigenous football carnivals in Northern and Central Australia.[80] His pictures were published by Hardie Grant in the 2003 book Centre Bounce: Football from Australia's Heart with written contributions by footballer Michael Long, Martin Flanagan and Neil Murray.[81] The integral role football plays in Tiwi culture was the subject of Peter Eve and Monica Napper's 2011 travelling exhibition Yiloga! Tiwi Footy, chronicling the Tiwi Islanders' "day of the year": the Tiwi Islands Football League Grand Final.[82] Others, such as Paul Dunn and social documentarian Rennie Ellis, have focused on the culture of football spectatorship and its associated paraphernalia. Both photographers were included in the 2010 group exhibition Australian Rules: Around the Grounds.[83] The 300-page coffee table book Our Great Game: The Photographic History of Australian Football was published in 2010.[84]
Exhibitions
Beginning in 1991, the grassroots Footy Art Show is held annually at The Artist's Garden in Fitzroy, Melbourne.[85] Each year has a new theme (e.g. 'Bring Back the Biffo' in 2001[86]), encouraging "more subversive accounts of the players, the supporters and the strange worlds surrounding the game".[3] Lewis Miller is among the show's regular contributors,[86] and past judges include football identities Kevin Sheedy, Denis Pagan and Chris Connolly.[87] In 2004, the National Gallery of Victoria hosted a football-themed prize exhibition of 21 artists.[6][3] David Wadelton's painting Show Them You Want It was announced the $40,000 winner on The Footy Show. The work, inspired by Scanlens football cards, is based on a photograph of Luke McPharlin and Nick Riewoldt looking skyward at a football.[88]
The $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize is held biennially at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. Its supporter, philanthropist Basil Sellers, founded the prize in an attempt to "bridge the gap between sport and art". The colourful spectacle of a major football match was the subject of Ivan Durrant's 2007 Boundary Rider series, nominated in the inaugural 2008 Basil Sellers Art Prize. Painted in a bold, semi-abstract style, the works are meant to invoke the passion and emotion of football barrackers.[89] Melbourne artist Jon Campbell won the 2012 Basil Sellers Art Prize for his work Dream Team, a composite of 22 individual paintings, each depicting a famous football nickname, among them Buddy, God, Captain Blood and Flying Doormat.
Film
Documentaries
Australian football was filmed as early as August 1898, when Essendon played Geelong at the
Megan Spencer's independent documentary Heathens (1991) studies the songs, chants and colourful profanity of a select group of St Kilda fans at Moorabbin Oval.[3] In 1997, a behind-the-scenes documentary about the struggling Western Bulldogs titled Year of the Dogs was screened in Australian cinemas, and later re-released on DVD in 2006. Included in the DVD's bonus material is the 1980 short documentary War Without Weapons, featuring Ron Barassi's motivational speeches and training sessions with North Melbourne throughout the 1979 VFL season.[92]
The 2007 documentary Aboriginal Rules follows the Indigenous
Goodes' treatment was also the main subject of the 2019 documentary
Fictional film
Peter Weir's 1981 World War I epic Gallipoli features a football game (based on real events) between Victorian and Western Australian diggers near the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt. Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson) captains the Western Australians, and Gallipoli screenwriter David Williamson stars in a cameo role as the Victorian side's imposing ruckman.[97]
In the Tim Burstall-directed ocker comedy Stork (1971), based on Williamson's 1970 play The Coming of Stork, Stork (Bruce Spence) and his flatmates reenact the 1970 VFL Grand Final in their kitchen with a ball of socks. Williamson and Burstall re-teamed for the 1974 film Petersen, starring Jack Thompson as a VFL player. Thompson played coach Laurie Holden alongside John Howard (Tasmanian recruit Geoff Hayward), Graham Kennedy (club president Ted Parker) and Frank Wilson (committeeman Jock Riley) in the 1980 film adaptation of Williamson's football play The Club. Directed by Bruce Beresford, The Club was nominated for five AFI Awards, including Best Film.
Indigenous actor David Ngoombujarra won an AFI Award for his role as the gifted but feckless footballer "Pretty Boy" Floyd in the 1993 film Blackfellas, shot and set in Western Australia. The arthouse films Yolngu Boy (2001) and Australian Rules (2002, inspired by Phillip Gwynne's 1998 novel Deadly Unna?) explore the connection between Indigenous youth and Australian football.[100][101]
The
In The Dressmaker (2015), set in a small town in country Victoria, Liam Hemsworth plays Teddy Mcswiney, the local football hero.[103]
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport, the 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival dedicated an evening to Footy Shorts—short films about Australian rules and what it means to individuals and communities.[104]
The 2009 American film Funny People featured St Kilda supporter Eric Bana in a scene where, as Saints supporter Clarke, he explained Australian rules football to George Simmons (Adam Sandler) and Ira Wright (Seth Rogen) while the 2008 semifinal between St Kilda and Collingwood was shown.[105]
Television
Australian rules has a long history with television which dates back to the first live broadcast of a match in 1957.
Video games
Australian Rules is also
See also
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