| Reference Type |
book
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| Title |
Images of Australia: 100 Films of the New Australian Cinema |
| Author(s) | Neil Rattigan |
| Town |
Dallas |
| State |
Unknown |
| Country |
United States of America |
| Publication Date |
00-00-1991 |
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| Comments |
Available in the Arts Open Access section of the State Library.
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| Synopsis |
Contains synopsis' for 100 Australian films.
In his text, Neil Rattigan breaks his critique into two areas 'story' and 'comment'.
Following are some of his more interesting comments;
Firstly, Rattigan says of 'The Cars that Ate Paris';
"....The use of black comedy in 'The Cars that Ate Paris' undermines the menace of the quite horrific situation of the narrative"(79)
and
"..the 'secret' of Paris - it's communal survival built upon car-wrecking and the corollary of the doctor's Frankensteinian medical experiments - offers one strong narrative. But so does the narrative conflict between the generations that is simmering within Paris' tiny confines and explodes into the apocalyptic climax. Each of these narratives is only slightly connected with the other, so the film seems ultimately to fall into two parts; although the climax can be seen to be intellectually appropriate, it seems somewhat artibrary narratively"(80)
Secondly, Rattigan says of 'The F.J. Holden';
While it proves "...unsatisfactory as a film in the final analysis, it does attack romance in two ways. First, clearly it finds little that is romantic in life in the suburbs; second it perhaps underlines by contrast the frequent overromanticization inherent in many films of the New Australian Cinema"(132)
And, finally, of 'Oz';
"...Oz is a grittily realistic, almost documentary, presentation of the geographic and material conditions of existence in rural Australia - thus reconfirming the dual interpretations of the films title and of its recurrent song on the soundtrack, "Living in the Land of Oz"(240). |
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| The F.J. Holden |
Pg.129 mentions the plot of the F. J Holden and commented about the film having influence on the Australian culture, particularly the popular culture about the car exclusively made in Australia after the Second World Wa
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