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Ozploitation In Film

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The film Not Quite Hollywood (2008) is a documentary which explores Australia’s genre of film from 1970s and 1980s. The film highlights how Ozploitation discourse has been created to analyse concepts within Australian genre films. However, Ryan (2010) believes that Ozploitation discourse restricts the analysis of Australian genre films as it makes it unclear and difficult for the audience to see how “Australian cinema engages with popular movie genres” (Ryan 2010, p.843). Ryan (2010) states that Ozploitation “devalues local genre cinema” (Ryan 2010, p.844) as it compels Australian film genre to be the realm of “exploitation and trash cinema” (Ryan 2010, p.844).

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