How Anzac movies fuel the Anzac myth

Australia's Anzac story has been greatly influenced by cinema, as these films show.
Peter Weir's 1981 film Gallipoli is 'perhaps the single most influential text on Anzac'. image: Associated R&R Films. Image is two young white actors dressed as diggers in on the fields of Gallipoli during the First World War.

Film has always been central to a popular understanding of the Anzac story.

Between the two world wars, Anzac movies saw a shift towards representing the Anzacs as long, lean larrikin bushmen, though there was still a strong British allegiance.

But a stridently nationalistic local film industry was revitalised in the 1980s, featuring a number of Anzac productions.

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