| Reference Type |
chapter
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| Title |
The Screening of Australia: Anatomy of a National Cinema Vol. 2. |
| Chapter/Web article title |
The Second Phase (1976 - 1980) Seeming Respectability. |
| Author(s) | Susan Dermody,Elizabeth Jacka |
| Publication Date |
00-00-1986 |
| Page Number |
110 - 151 |
| Comments |
Dermody and Jacka provide their readership with a discursive look into the way in which two very different Australian Road films project images of 'Australianness', and to some extent, are held prisoner by our culture.
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| Synopsis |
Dermody and Jacka make interesting observations into the miens of the Road Movie genre observed by 'Oz' whereby "..maleness is both a threat and the lure in the story, which is always an undisguised projection of Dorothy's fantasy. It is an interesting fantasy in which the tables are turned on desire and fear allowing the girl to move on , a fraction stronger after each incident"(115)
Whereas, in 'The F.J. Holden', the road movie becomes ensnared in suburbia, whereby both central progagonists Anne and Kevin "...get nowhere, trapped in teh maze of Sydney's Western suburbs. .. This is [an] essential Australian landscape, not one that asks through the camera to be claimed by the senses, but one which claims - or at least accommodates - the Australian heart"(119) |
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