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| In Australian culture today why is there a wish from non-indigenous people for indigenous people to be in the national stories? |
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| Because of wrongs committed |
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| How do non-indigenous cultures use indigenous cultures? |
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| The appropriation of culture to find a sense of belonging |
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| Even though narratives of the ‘noble savage” suggested these people did belong it also implied? |
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| Belief that they will not survive inevitable onslaught of colonization |
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| How did C.W. Bean compare Australian to American frontier expansion? |
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| in Australia "there happened nothing" |
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| The stories non-indigenous people tell about Australia place them in what position in regards to the land? |
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| must fight land to survive |
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| In Australian cinema the aborigine is often depicted as? |
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| misunderstood, different from us |
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| How does Julie Marcus define cultural appropriation? |
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| Process by which meanings are transformed within political hierarchy |
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| Indigenous people who adopt a non-indigenous lifestyle are often considered what? |
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| not real indigenous people |
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| Whereas non-indigenous cultures are seen as embracing new technologies, indigenous cultures are seen as? |
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| stay the way they are, don't embrace it |
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| According to Scott Murray what are the two contradictory forces at work in Australian cinema? |
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| Australians like things that differ from their perspective of normal but at the same time they never stop anyone from being different, won't hang out around different people |
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| What was the first genre of Australian film to make a foothold in the 1970s? |
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| comedy based on the cruder behavior of Australian men, cursing, drunkenness, mateship, anti-intellectualism |
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| What is the basic plotline of Bruce Beresford’s The Adventures of Barry MacKenzie? |
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| an Australian living abroad in London |
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| Why did the period film develop as a genre in Australia? |
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| the left-wing labor government funded the movies, thought it was important to look at history through Australian eyes |
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| The period films often featured which part of Australia? |
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| harsh Australian outback, "the bush" |
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| Who directed Picnic at Hanging Rock? |
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| Period films often had what type of person as a central character? |
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| strong, female characters |
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| In presenting a feminist tale in My Brilliant Career what does Pauline Kael take offense to? |
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| the need to be alone, avoiding males/sex |
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| What Australian film was the most successful in the 1970s? |
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| In the 1980s how did Australian cinema shift? |
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| not enough people living in Australia for local production market, needed to sell films overseas |
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| What was the unexpected result of tax credits in the 1980s for Australian filmmakers? |
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| a lot of crappy films were made, stock brokers and bankers made films, film production tripled |
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| Which iconic Australian film was made under 10BA? |
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| Which Australian actors in the 1980s could generate a pre-sale to the American market? |
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| Mel Gibson, Paul Hogan, Brian Brown |
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| Who was the first ‘star’ that was deliberately created & molded in Australian cinema by Kennedy Miller? |
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| Where does the tension derive from in the Australian 1980s political thriller? |
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| A growing realization of dark forces at work behind the facades of modern life |
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| The 1980s saw what three horse related films gain success? |
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| Man from Snow River, Phar Lap, The Light Horseman |
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| What issue did Australian critics take with Wincer’s Quigley Down Under? |
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| it starred an American actor saving the aborigines from the Australians |
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| What was the fundamental difference between Mad Max and its sequel? |
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| ties it more to writings of mythology, more concerned with myth of Mad Max |
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| How does the language in Crocodile Dundee make it accessible to an international audience? |
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| every time something is said in Australian slang it would be explained |
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| What film launched Nicole Kidman’s Hollywood Career? |
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| What is the one topic Australian film makers failed to address effectively in the 1970s and 1980s? |
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| Miller’s Lorenzo’s Oil as an American film can address what topic? |
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| Heterosexual love at its noblest |
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| Jane Campion’s The Piano ends, despite its critique of personal relationships, on what kind of note? |
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| Bliss can depict a happy romantic ending because… |
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| Imaginativeness of reconciliation |
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| Who directed Evil Angels? |
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| Why did the Australian public judge the Chamberlains, as depicted in Evil Angels, so quickly? |
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| they were 7th day Adventists |
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| Who starred in Romper Stomper? |
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| What is Romper Stomper about? |
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| Australia has what percentage of the world’s population? |
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| Who wrote and directed Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert? |
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| Who are the three stars of the film? |
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| Terrence Damp, Guy Pierce, Hugo Weaving |
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| How was casting key to the film’s success? |
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| Guy Pierce seen as heartthrob, Terrence Damp seen as tough guy, cast against the norm |
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| The film is what kind of genre? |
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| comedy, musical, camp, road trip movie |
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| Who stars as Bernadette’s love interest? |
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| Why does a film like Priscilla get such a huge response from the gay community? |
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| put a human face on gay community |
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| Chris Berry believes the film is successful because? |
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| it made light of gay lifestyle, glossed over hardships |
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| Elliot’s response to Berry’s criticisms is? |
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| movie was meant to be funny, tasteless, brash, and in your face |
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| Priscilla grossed how much in the United States market making it a success? |
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| What does Priscilla contrast as traditional elements of Australian cinema? |
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| mythology of the outback vs. what it means to live in an urban situation |
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