The Globalisation of Australian Cinema

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What tactics has Australian cinema used in an attempt to compete within the increasingly global film industry over the past two decades? This paper discusses how the often very nationally-specific Australian film industry changed itself for an attack on the Hollywood-dominated international market.

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"he success of Australian films internationally is seemingly very sporadic. The dominant film form is the Hollywood film and thus international success can often depend on how closely the film conforms to Hollywood standards. The introduction of Hollywood aesthetics has been attempted at various stages in the history of Australian film to varying degrees of success. The past two decades have been particularly interesting in the way Australian cinema addressed the issue of making its product appealing in the Hollywood-saturated world market. In the 1980s, a new system of film financing was introduced which placed power in private investors, whose inclination tended towards the production of blockbusters to encourage the maximisation of profits. Crocodile Dundee emerged in this era as an Australian film which astutely served its Australianness to a global audience. In the 1990s, the lines began to blur as international financing, cross-national co-productions and foreign-owned studios, crept into Australia. Hollywood stars, directors and more classically-structured and formulaic plotlines and characters have led to the success of Australian films, such as Dark City, in a wide market. Using these two films, there will be an attempt to identify how Australian film, in some instances over these past two decades, has tried to replicate the Hollywood form."

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