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CTV 3310 Quiz #9
CTV 3310 Quiz #9
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
03/27/2012

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What shift did Australian films experience in the 1990s?
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more international funding
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In the 1990’s what returned as a key source for film financing?
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Liberal Government
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In the 1990s how did theater building impact Aussie cinema?
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Australians built a lot of movie theaters, need to fill screen with product
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How were the cultural identities offered by Australian cinema in transition in the 1990s?
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multiculturalism
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What theme was explored on Australian cinema in the 1990s that had previously been ignored?
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sexuality
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Which gender took a stronger role in Australian cinema of the 1990s?
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women
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Which Oscar-nominated Australian co-production was the most successful feminist film of the 1990s?
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The Piano
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Which Australian city rose to the forefront of film making in the 1990s?
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Melbourne
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How is successful 1990s Australian cinema unique from the perspective of the director’s involvement vs Hollywood cinema as a general rule?
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focused on director's vision of what films should be, co-workers in charge of vision of the film
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Ross Gibson believed that 1990s Australian cinema was stricken with what sickness?
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always needed aspects of America in it
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The 1990s also saw what relationship between Hollywood & Australian filmmakers grow?
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Aussie filmmakers moved to Hollywood
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How did Fred Schepisi explain the success of Australian filmmakers in Hollywood?
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natural thing to make films in America, had skill set, understood Hollywood cinema because they'd been raised on it
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Which Oscar winning film reflected Australian landscapes because of its cinematographer?
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Dances with Wolves
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At the end of the 1990s why did film production in Australia experience a boom?
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Australian dollar collapsed, very cheap to make films
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What investment did Rupert Murdoch make in Sydney to encourage local film production?
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turned showgrounds into a studio
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Who directed Strictly Ballroom?
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Baz Luhrmann
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What was the budget for the production of Strictly Ballroom?
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$3 Million Australian
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How did they shoot the final dance scene in Strictly Ballroom (filmed on the first day of shooting)?
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shot scenes during breaks of ballroom dancing championship
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Which key actor passed away before the film was released?
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Pat Thompson
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How is the film the anti-thesis to the Outback image of Australia?
Definition
focuses on something not manly (ballroom dancing), set in suburbs
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What element does Strictly Ballroom introduce to Australian Cinema (along with films like Muriel's Wedding and Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert)?
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quirkiness, eccentricity
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Where did the idea for Strictly Ballroom come from?
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Baz Luhrmann went to National Institute of Dramatic Art, found traditional teaching oppressive, decided to make film where dancer dances his own steps
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What award did Strictly Ballroom win at Cannes?
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Award of the Youth
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Strictly Ballroom is part of Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain Cinema trilogy. What are the three rules for red curtain cinema?
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heightened, stylized world; underdog overcoming; audience participation cinema
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What three films make up Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain Cinema trilogy?
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Strictly Ballroom, Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge
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How is Fran’s world different than the rest of the film?
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family lives on the fringes of Australian society, stark contrast to atrificialness of the ballroom dancing world
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How is Fran’s family different than the other characters in the film?
Definition
more passionate than winning obsessed anglo-Australians
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Why is the paso doble chosen as the key dance?
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ballroom dancing made rules about paso doble, prevented emotion
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By incorporating the paso doble the film tries to capture what aspect of the dance?
Definition
highlight the passion of dance
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How is Strictly Ballroom like the Hollywood musicals of the 1950s?
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main characters dance 90% of the film
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How does the character Barry Fife (Bill Hunter) represent the stereotypical Aussie male?
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patriarchal, authoritarian figure, treaty women as objects, sleazy
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How does the character Les Kendall represent the weaker Australian male in Strictly Ballroom?
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camp, homosexual, being different not to his advantage
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How is Doug Hastings the anti-thesis to the Australian male in Strictly Ballroom?
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bullied into submission by wife, no authority
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How is Doug Hasting contrasted to Rico, Fran’s father in Strictly Ballroom in Strictly Ballroom?
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Rico is extremely strong and masculine, dances very macho, takes over father figure to Scott; Doug's father is insippered
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How does Strictly Ballroom satirize the Anglo-Australian women?
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depicted as hysterical, bitchy, and manipulative
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How does Strictly Ballroom empower the Anglo-Australian women?
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makes them dominating, mother is head of household, able to manipulate men
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How does Strictly Ballroom depict the Non-Anglo-Australian women?
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paints nice picture of Mediterranean culture, Fran depicted as fairy tale heroine
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What is the genre of Strictly Ballroom?
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comedy, musical, romantic comedy, the ugly duckling
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What makes Strictly Ballroom Australian?
Definition
set in suburban Australia, deals with issues of multiculturalism
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What do many non-indigenous Australians imagine the interior of Australia to contain?
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a resevoir of meaning about their essential Australian experience
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In modern Australia culture when women experience loss in the Outback, they are depicted as?
Definition
not entirely innocent
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Why does the centre of Australia also represent terror for many Australians?
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it is terrifyingly unknown
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What is Aboriginal Dreaming?
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aboriginal spirituality and beliefs
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What is the name of the famous rock monolith in the middle of the Australian Outback?
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Ayers Rock
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Why was Antarctica truly terra nullius?
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truly noone owned it
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Antarctica has the reputation for making a man go what?
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feral
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There is a tension in Australia of recognizing the land as beautiful but also…
Definition
can be used for economic benefit
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What was the name of the river that the Hawke government promised to save in the early 1980s and consequently won a federal election?
Definition
Franklin River
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