NFSA's Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection: Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee was a huge success both in Australia and overseas, but popularity and critical approval are not necessarily the same thing. Jeanette Hoorn's essay offers some provocative explorations for the Dundee phenomenon, exposing its roots in our national mythology and encouraging us to consider how we like to think of ourselves and how we want other countries to imagine us.

Additional keywords: Paul Hogan, noble savage, western, genre, exoticisation, outback, stereotype, masculinity, Indigeneity, black, African American, Other, tribe, urban, rural, ethnicity, identity politics.