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Film Movement
1970s–1980s
Australian New Wave
Oceania
The 1970s: government money, a national cinema, and stories told for the first time about Australian land and Australian shame. Peter Weir, Gillian Armstrong, Phillip Noyce — films strange with the strangeness of the continent.
The Australian New Wave was an era of resurgence in the worldwide popularity of the Australian cinema, particularly in the United States. It began in the early 1970s and lasted until the mid-late 1980s. The era also marked the emergence of Ozploitation, a film genre characterised by the exploitation of colloquial Australian culture.
Key Directors
Australia
That we would see in letters five feet high His name one day spread shining in the gloom Preceded with the words ‘Directed by’ – To doubt that prospect there was never room. He had the screenplay ready in the womb. He was (he’ll know I say it without unction) By nature built for
Australia
In a 1979 interview, just prior to the release of his debut feature Mad Max, George Miller gave an encapsulated account of his understanding of film style to Peter Beilby and Scott Murray, from Australia’s Cinema Papers . The film had yet to become an enormous success, and so Mil
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