the fairest child of the motherland... where society, public ideologies and business conditions unevenly and self-consciously projected the cinema and society as continaution of British society.9) The ocker films of the 70`s can be seen as a backlash against decades of simpering Australian filmmaking, harking back to the notions of England as the old country and the feelings of exile with no notions of going home' alone in an oppressive, barren land, trapped in the inhospitale Australian landscape. ...

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