10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCKERISM»
Discover the use of
ockerism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ockerism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
What really polarised the Australian community, into an awareness of ockerism
and its dangers, was the post-war surge of affluence, which dispersed
Australians of working-class backgrounds into the affluent suburbs of the big
cities, so that ...
Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt,
1988
2
Imagined Australia: Reflections Around the Reciprocal ...
This celebration was couched in an aggressively Australian or "strine" accent' (O'
Regan 1989a, p 76). O'Regan goes on to comment that by the mid-1970s '
ockerism had become a powerful advertising pitch on television and radio' (O'
Regan ...
Renata Summo-O'Connell,
2009
3
Barmaids: A History of Women's Work in Pubs
Some studies were more academic in their approach but still they were
subjecting pubs to a scrutiny that was new at that time and which subsequently
disappeared from view. Even though they might well have been parodying
ockerism, such ...
4
Australian English - The National Language
Without an appreciation of that oneness, it is hard to comprehend what Dr.
Cooper meant when he compared his with Paul Hogan's ockerism. For him
ockerism was not the beer-swelling, boastful Australian in front of a tourist crowd,
it was the ...
5
Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945
While film and theatre made the ocker famous, advertising took him to a mass
audience, legitimising the use of Australian accents on television in the process.
65 Although it may have begun as a countercultural critique, the new ockerism
was ...
This character is usually male, but the affliction of ockerism is also shared by the
female, albeit manifest in different ways. Ockerism seems to derive from an acute
inferiority complex and is symptomised by extreme aggression towards ...
Paul McGillick, Jack Hibberd,
1988
7
Dreams Within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir
... Colonel, 8-9 Australian Film Development Commission/ Australian Film
Commission, 2 Australian film industry: attitude of toward women and Aborigines,
4-5; early years and decline of, 1-2; mateship in, 3; ockerism as theme in, 2-3
Ballard, ...
8
Writing the Everyday: Australian Literature and the Limits ...
... Ockerism: The Poetry of Bruce Dawe.' The Lyre in the Pawnshop: Essays on
Literature and Survival 1974-1984. Perth: U of Western Australia P, 1986: 124-35
. Jennifer Maiden The Suburban Problem of Evil OUR first scene 114 David ...
9
Australian television: a genealogy of great moments
It is interesting that, at the period described above, when 'ockerism' became an
important part of adverts, and Australian culture more generally seems to have
been moving to the acceptance that 'it's alright to be Australian', there were
voices ...
10
Australian Cultural History
This new variant appears in their ambivalence about "ockerism", which critics are
(see, for instance, Peter Fitzpatrick in John Carroll (ed.), Intruders in the Bush,
1982, ch.10). On the one hand, the plays share a satiric sense of what they see
as ...
Samuel Louis Goldberg, Francis Barrymore Smith,
1988
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCKERISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
ockerism is used in the context of the following news items.
TV and Radio
A good dose of ockerism was administered in the form of “Hoges”, through The Paul Hogan Show, his tourism ads and Crocodile Dundee. «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»
Shane Warne's questioning of a 'very thirsty' Australian cricket side …
The larrikin commentator, whose charm lies heavily in his unabashed ockerism (he once had tinned spaghetti and baked beans flown to India ... «The Daily Telegraph, Mar 15»
Henry V: Theatrical improvisation spurs urgency
One fringe benefit of using the Blitz as a setting is that it abates the slide into ockerism characteristic of one strain of Shakespearean ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 14»
Jonathan Brown: like something from a different era but fortunately …
... no player in recent memory gave greater service to ockerism. ... so obviously walk a little taller and d) given greater service to ockerism. «The Age, Jun 14»
Ockerism, Conservatism and The Rocky Horror Show
With everyone having seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show film, how do you convince them to see another live production? Anne-Marie Peard ... «Aussie Theatre, Apr 14»
Bob Katter Donates To Pharrell's Hat Collection
... Lund, Merrick Watts, and Sophie Monk at 2DayFM, the rapper and super-producer came face to face with two icons of Australian ockerism. «Music Feeds, Mar 14»
Wolf Creek 2 knifed by intellectual snobbery
The Wolf Creek films revel in the nightmarish underside to the myths of rural idyll, mateship and charming ockerism that have become so ... «WA today, Feb 14»
Show of the week: It's a Date
... Ryan Shelton, Justin Hamilton and Kate Langbroek) and, while some of the humour tends towards broad ockerism, there are some poignant ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 13»
The Comedy of Errors
While Bell Shakespeare can resort to pointless, overplayed ockerism, here the typologies are quintessentially Australian but the delivery is ... «The Age, Aug 13»
Crushed | Chester Productions
Barker handles the character admirably. Despite some flaws in dialogue, he avoids jingoistic ockerism and the character, while a little shallow, ... «Australian Stage Online, May 12»