Abstract
Crime stories have been increasingly prevalent on Australian screens over the last two decades. While there have been no breakout box-office hits, crime has nevertheless been one of the most sustained genres of Australian cinema in the twenty-first century. The crime genre in Australia is unique in its broad domestic audience appeal, strong sense of national identity, and inimitable visual style. Most Australian crime films are consumed by domestic audiences and tread a fine line between commercial entertainment and quality cinema. However, not all examples of the genre are clearly billed as ‘crime’: many are hybrids of comedy, thriller, drama, Western, or biography. Nevertheless, of the more than 150 films produced since 2000 that could be regarded as Australian crime films, three of the most popular or critically significant stylistic variations on cinema screens are: ‘true crime’; ‘outback noir’, as an Indigenous Australian variation of neo-noir; and ‘crime comedies’.
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