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'This essay is a redescription of Australian films set in or dealing in some way with Asia. If an imaginary 'Asia' is sometimes a feature of Australian films, it is only as a generic motif viewed entirely through a lens of internal preoccupations of Australian culture. [...] To my eyes Romper Stomper and The Good Woman of Bangkok have a long cultural genealogy (pp. 53, 54).
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The Orphan Complex : An Australian Myth Travels to Asia
Subjects:
- The Good Woman of Bangkok 1991 single work film/TV
- Romper Stomper 1992 single work film/TV
- The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 single work film/TV
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994 single work film/TV
- Shadows of the Peacock 1987 single work film/TV
- Turtle Beach 1992 single work film/TV
- Asia,
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