- Title
- Life as a pizza : The comic traditions of wogsploitation films
- Creator
- Speed, Lesley
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/60682
- Identifier
- vital:828
- Identifier
- ISSN:0312-2654
- Abstract
- At the box office and in television ratings, Australian comedy reached a high point with this film and the television series Pizza, which spawned the film Fat Pizza (Paul Fenech, 2003). These 'wogsploitation' films were created by Australians of non-English speaking backgrounds and eschew the sensitive and dramatic portrayals of ethnic minorities seen in earlier films. While The Wog Boy and Fat Pizza have been accused of a return to outdated ethnic stereotypes, these films differ from previous comic depictions of Australian ethnic minorities. Far from being positioned as victims, the protagonists of these films simultaneously assert their ethnic identities and reconfigure the Australian stereotype of the 'ocker'.; C1
- Publisher
- Australian Teachers of Media
- Relation
- Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine Vol. 146/147, no. (2005), p. 136-144
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Teachers of Media
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media; Australian film
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