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Widely loved and hugely profitable, George Miller's The Man from Snowy River drew on the deftness of Australian television drama to help reorient Australian filmmaking towards a popular and international audience. Yet it was also too gauche for cinephiles and too glossy a portrait of Australia for progressive audiences. Dan Golding examines the contradiction of popular appeal and critical discomfort at the heart of this local classic – along with the processes of adaptation, production and exhibition that culminated in its release on screen.
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nationalism, patriotism, mythology, colonialism, Terra Nullius, 10BA, Banjo Paterson, masculinity, bushranger, stockman, tracker, Sigrid Thornton, Kirk Douglas.
