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Title

Australian comedy: what's that?

Author(s)

McFarlane, Brian

Abstract

As filmgoers, do you sometimes wonder if the phrase 'Australian comedy' is an oxymoron? Certainly, as I watched in a concentrated burst over a couple of weeks a half-dozen films from the last five years, it did quite often seem to me that the phrase was yoking together two concepts with little common ground. Then, very recently I caught up with the telemovie, Stiff (John Clarke, 2004), and my spirits rose again. But we'll come back to that.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Metro Magazine, no. 142 (2005), pp. 34-37

Publication year

2005

FOR Code(s)

1902 Film, Television and Digital Media;  2001 Communication and Media Studies

Keyword(s)

Australian cinema;  Australian comedy;  Australian film;  Comedy films;  Film genres;  Humour

Publisher

Australian Teachers of Media

ISSN

0312-2654

Publisher URL

http://www.metromagazine.com.au/

Copyright

Copyright © 2005. The published version is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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