Over the years, this distinct film style, which surfaced in the second half of the 1980s, has acquired many different labels: eccentric, quirky, non-conformist, dark, noisy, camp, kitsch, new gothic. In spite of its generic, thematic and stylistic diversity, popular contemporary Australian cinema of the last two decades, and especially in the 1990s, has found its market niche in developing a tendency to incorporate an element of the ‘grotesque.’ This manifests itself in terms of narrative and visual style to create a divergent and truly Australian cinematic experience. ![]() A national cinema is obliged to enact, express and represent the national lifeways and aspirations of people in Australia – through projecting these specificities it finds its identity and its market niche in the international cinema.
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