Australian New Wave

All you want to know about Australian New Wave

The Australian New Wave, also known as the "Australian Film Revival" and the "Australian Film Renaissance", was a resurgence in worldwide popularity of Australian cinema culture that started in the early 1970s and lasted until the late 1980s. Some films from the era are also known as "Ozploitation" films, a style unique to Australian cinema[1].

Contents

Notable Films

Notable Figures

Directors and actors who launched successful careers as a direct result of the Australian New Wave include:

Directors:

Actors:

Sue Mathews' 35mm Dreams, published at the height of the Australian New Wave in 1984, was a landmark study of the major Australian directors of the time. Among the directors portrayed, one - John Duigan - had not yet received widespread critical and box-office acclaim. He came to worldwide attention after making The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and its sequel Flirting (1991) a few years later.

Ozploitation

Ozploitation films are a type of low budget horror, comedy and action films made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971[2]. The year also marked the beginnings of the Australian New Wave movement, and the Ozploitation style peaked within the same time frame (early 1970s to late 1980s). Ozploitation is often considered a smaller wave within the Australian New Wave, "a time when break-neck-action, schlock-horror, ocker comedy and frisky sex romps joined a uniquely antipodean wave in exploitation cinema"[1].

Ozploitation is experiencing somewhat of a revivial in recent years with films: Undead (2003), Wolf Creek (2005), Rogue (2007), Daybreakers (2008), Storm Warning (2008), and the upcoming Long Weekend made in the Ozploitation style. A 2008 feature film, Not Quite Hollywood, examines the Ozploitation films made during the Australian New Wave. The film includes interviews with Quentin Tarantino, a long time fan of Ozploitation films[1][2]. Queensland University of Technology PhD researcher Mark David Ryan, in the first in-depth study, found that Australian horror film production has trebled from less than 20 films in the 1990s to over 60 films between 2000 and 2008[3].

The origin of the term "Ozploitation" is credited to the documentary Not Quite Hollywood. Quentin Tarantino coined the phrase "Aussiesploitation", which director Mark Hartley then shortened to "Ozploitation"[4].

References

  1. ^ a b c Australian Film Institute - "Not Quite Hollywood" article
  2. ^ a b FilmStew.com - "An Ode to Ozploitation" article, May 5 2008
  3. ^ Horror Brings Film Industry Back From Grave, The Age, October 13 2008
  4. ^ The Bazura Project - Interview with Mark Hartley, October 28 2008

See also


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