Myths of oz taps into the current obsession with Australian popular culture. Its success is guaranteed by its appearance at the start of Australia’s Bicentennial celebrations in which we have been invited to wallow in our national identity. As the celebrations shape up as a joke at our expense in both senses of the word, the unfolding non-event echoes a theme developed in Myths of Oz that:
Culture ... has to work to construct any unity that it has, rather than simply celebrate an achieved or natural harmony. (p.X)
Myths of Oz. Reading Australian Popular Culture by John Fiske, Bob Hodge & Graeme Turner
Allen & Unwin, $15.95 pb, 192 pp
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