Cinema and the Australian North: Tracking and Troping Regionally Distinct Landscapes via Baz Luhrmann's Australia

Stephen Carleton tackles the swag of mythic associations invoked by the landscapes of northern Australia in order to argue that Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008) is emblematic of a regional trope in which the far north functions as a metonym for the entire continent, and for the nation's colonial history.