1. Australian National Cinema
... , yet in a limited, comic-book way. He vascillitated between the Australian male super-hero (catching a thief with a thrown tin) and the con-artist (who shamelessly tells the time in the bush by looking at his watch). Crocodile Dundee was a slick marketing gimmick, presenting Australia as a tourist product, a created commodity to be consumed by audiences. For Ramona Barry (1994) it was 'creating ... what the world thinks we do best-cracking jokes, eating bush tucker and being basically naive to technology and the culture of the civilised world. It was an un-Australian film.' LOCAL FILMS ...
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