OZPLOITATION AND AUSTRALIAN PARACINEMA

Ozploitation and Australian Paracinema

Ozploitation and Australian Paracinema

Introduction

While Australian cinema has produced popular movie genres since the 1970s, including action/adventure, road movies, crime, and horror movies, genre cinema has occupied a precarious position within a subsidised national cinema and has been largely written out of film history.

Ozploitation and Australian Paracinema

Since the 1990s, this genre has also received attention from academic circles, where it is sometimes called paracinema.

In recent years the documentary Not Quite Hollywood (2008) has brought Australia's genre movie heritage from the 1970s and 1980s back to the attention of cinephiles, critics and cult audiences worldwide. Since ...