| Reference Type |
Nation Review
newspaper
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| Title |
F.J. Bankstown |
| Author(s) | Bob Ellis |
| Page Number |
6 - 7 |
| Comments |
Ellis offers an insightful argument into the 'displacement' of genre within the film, predicting that most Australian audiences will probably reject if for its too-real-realism. |
| Synopsis |
While commending the film, Ellis ponders who its potential audience will be, as, he assumes, its social realism will be too confronting for most audiences. He states; "..the people it's about won't come to it, any more than the kangaroo slaughterers of western New South Wales will come to 'Wake in Fright. They are too threatened by it, and will go instead to 'Carry on Up the Khyber', 'The Towering Inferno' or 'Alvin Purple'. The art film crowd won't go to it either, because they prefer their social realism in exotic settings with subtitles, preferably in Italy, preferably set in the past. And the middleclass audience won't go to it either, to view the urban aridity their fathers crawled out of and their father in this depression might sink back into: it threatens them even more" |
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