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Who sang ‘I Still Call Australia Home’?
Peter Allen
The Heidelberg school existed prior to what date?
1901
How did the Heidelberg school bring a nationalistic agenda to their paintings?
Distinctly different from the mother county.
What did the Heidelberg School art tell new or emerging Australians?
The emerging Australian was about hard work and love of the land
In literature during the Heidelberg School era, Australians were defined as being?
Different
What does Australian music battle?
American cultural imperialism
How is grassroots Australian music different than American imports?
American music is highly commercialized whereas Australian music is pub/club in nature
What Midnight Oil song had a huge influence on the fight for indigenous land rights?
Beds are Burning
What function does indigenous music play in indigenous communities?
1) It's an expression of beliefs
2) It's a rallying cry
What is the function of hip-hop & rap in Australian music?
It's seen as a non-white music and is generally sung by natives.
Prior to Australia’s Film Renaissance what was the Australian government’s attitude about the Arts?
Censorship
What was the name of the conservative Prime Minister who ruled from 1949 to 1963?
Robert Menses
In the 1960s how many Australian plays were produced?
Four.
By the late 1960s Australians realized who owned large tracts of cattle country?
British & Texans
Which Prime Minister began to reverse the trend of foreign ownership?
John Galton
Philip Adams proposed that Australians needed what to Gorton?
See their own landscape, hear their own voices, dream their own dreams.
What was the intent of the Experimental Film Fund?
To discover talent good enough to be in AFTRS
What were the first 3 acts of Gough Whitlam upon election?
1) Recognized China as a nation
2) Took the troops out of Vietnam
3) Fund the Arts
Which Broadway performer appears in Barry MacKenzie Holds His Own?
Barry Humphreys
What was Gough Whitlam’s campaign slogan?
It's Time...
Besides federal support the Australian film industry quickly garnished support from what?
Their own fim funds.
Early Australian films by and large were elegiac images of what?
About people failing.
What film was the first successful Australian film to show a hero achieves success?
Mad Max
Who plays the father in The Sum of Us?
Jack Thompson
Who plays the gay son Jeff in The Sum of Us?
John Paulson
Who wrote The Sum of Us?
David Stevens
The Sum of Us was released during what period of cinematic revolution in Australian cinema?
Late 80s during the popularity of Australian films.
In the 1990s what Australian policies were prominent?
Multicultural policy was prominant, push for equal Rights for Homosexuals, and Australian women were coming to the forefront of Australian filmmakers.
How was The Sum of Us, like many films of the early 1990’s, different from the films of the 1980’s?
It had a small budget, it was dialogue driven and it was not expecting a huge success.

It was successful upon release = Sleeper phenomenon
How is The Sum of Us typical of a number of films in the early to mid 1990’s?
It was original and it pushed the boundaries of Australian cinema because it showed them something new while keeping them entertained.
The Sum of Us exhibits what familiar traits that are distinctive to Australia’s national cinema?
Mundane cinema; working-class Australians.
Even though Jeff is homosexual in The Sum of Us he still exhibits what?
Masculinity
What valuable place does The Sum of Us have in contemporary critical and market horizons?
It proved the the Asturalian film fund was a beneficial process and change the whole perscpective of what Australian film should depict/how they wanted to depict themselves to the world. It placed a minority group in a realistic complex.