Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 'That's Not Us!' Wake in Fright and the Australian Nightmare
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'Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of Wake in Fright, one of Australian cinema's 197C most unsettling horror movies, as well as one of its most, perceptive works of national self-interrogation. Adapted from Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name and directed by Ted Kotcheff of later First Blood fame, Wake in Fright has attained a semi-mythical status firstly as a `lost movie', only being fully restored for a 2009 re-release, and secondly as a cult film rejected by audiences on its theatrical release and with considerably less influence on the mainstream of Australian cinema than its contemporaries in the Australian Gothic genre.. (Introduction)
 

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    y separately published work icon Overland no. 247 Winter 2022 25350922 2022 periodical issue 'In the time since our last edition the Victorian Aboriginal community has lost two of its most prominent Elders, Uncle Archie Roach and Uncle Jack Charles. Both were survivors of a brutal r3egime of state-sanctioned removal and assimilation that continues to tear apart Aboriginal families today. Both will be sorely missed from the community in which Overland lives and works, and remembered forever for their compassion, resilience and leadership.' (Editorial introduction) 2022 pg. 3-17
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