Hybrid Cinema

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The paper is for a third year film dealing with Australian and New Zealand Cinema. The topic of the paper is the films of Peter Weir. The paper suggests that Weir uses a hybrid style of film making and because his technique is so distinctively Australian it has become an important part of the Australian national identity.

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"Countries are always worried about their national identities. Nations that feel that they lack a strong national identity spend a great deal of time, energy and money trying to create a national culture that is truly distinctive. For example, in Australian Cinema, Elizabeth Jacka states, "For them `patriotism' is not a love of country (in the sense of nation) of a sentiment of `my country (nation) right or wrong', but rather a love of country in the sense of a locality, a place (not just geographically but cultural)"(Jacka 111)."

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