it's a shame we have no lens to talk about all the non-genre Australian movies today!!! Stratton tries his best to advocate for "Australian New Wave" as a way to engage with this stuff but it seems to have languished in the realm of what I call "Wikipedia knowledge." embalmed in an infobox.

Unfortunately we make do with "Ozploitation" which is such a stupid and embarrassing term to retrospectively frame much of this work, drawing out only its worst aspects.

incredible how Stratton writes about these movies contemporaneously, floating on top of the critical consensus like oil on water

like one critic he quotes complains of a movie "The narrative is simply a series of incidents" like yeah man that's exactly why 70s movies are so good