![]() 'Great Southern Land’, ‘Faraway Downs’ or ‘Australia’, these were the three titles under the hammer for Baz Luhrmann's, 2008, romantic, adventure story, filled with magic moments of high drama and emotional catharsis. The film is an abundance of clichés and stylistic excess, alongside the two main characters, “Drover’ and Lady Ashley, representing the dichotomy of outback meets upper class England, the cultural divide further highlighting the ocker representation of Australian film. The film “Australia” is a modern popular culture representation of the “ocker” stereotype, a sweeping epic similar in magnitude to “Gone with the Wind’ (Frazier 2008). ![]() The ‘ocker’ stereotype is represented in the Australian film industry in a number of ways.The ocker is part of the joke or is a bid to sell the country.
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