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Man From Snowy River Stereotypes

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TERM 4 ENGLISH
ASSESSMENT: ORAL PRESENTATION
HANNAH BAKER
How is the viewer positioned with regards to issues of gender in the Australian film The Man from Snowy River?

“One moment it 's paradise, the next it 's trying to kill you.” (The Man from Snowy River, 1982) Australia is an untameable land that most would not survive, however the quintessential Australian stereotypes thrive in this unforgiving environment. The 1982 Australian film, The Man from Snowy River, directed by George Miller, evidently exhibits the universally recognised gender stereotype of the Australian man; a man considered to be a masculine, indomitable individual who is adept at enduring the struggles that life brings, whilst contradicting the gender stereotype of the …show more content…

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