2014/03/01 by Deborah Tudor
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Cinema and Media Studies #Media Studies and Communication #Media, Gender, and Advertising
paper · pdf · doi:10.7275/democratic-communique.201
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Current notions of global cinema trends mention genre blending as a strategy for maximizing international distribution, However, global genre merging has a long history and can provide a rough map of the borders of international cinematic identities, The 1936 Australian film Rangle River combines a generic Hollywood Western plot with an English drawing-room comedy.Two different male characters, an Australian ranch hand and an upper class Englishman, largely provide the differences that trace these identities.However, like the blended narrative, the opposition of the two modes of masculinity overlaps and combines the local and the international.In this way, the film traces some of the different international influences and heritages that comprise Australian cinema and identity, This paper is an initial attempt to look at such films and see how competing ideas of national narrative and identity emerge in a blended cinema.