Dog Years: Reticence and Reform in Kriv Stenders' 'Red Dog: True Blue'

Last year's follow-up to Kriv Stenders' 2011 film about the eponymous famed canine is just as loveable as its forebear. But, far from merely peddling romanticised mythic images of a long-gone Arcadian outback, Red Dog: True Blue also offers commentaries – however subtle – on masculinity, environmentalism and political change in Australia, writes Dave Hoskin.

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