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:
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Jennifer Craik
Jennifer Craik is Research Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Design and Creative Practice at the University of Canberra and Adjunct Professor in Fashion at the School of Fashion and Textiles at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne. Her seminal publications include The Face of Fashion: cultural studies in fashion and Uniforms Exposed: from conformity to transgression.