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CTV 3310 Quiz #10
CTV 3310 Quiz #10
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
04/03/2012

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What two Australian annual rituals does the government support financially?
Definition
Australia Day and ANZAC Day
Term
What date is Australia Day?
Definition
February 26th
Term
What does Australia Day celebrate?
Definition
First fleet arriving in Australia
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Which European had the first documented contact with Australia’s indigenous population?
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Willem Janszoon 1606
Term
Who claimed Australia for Great Britain in 1770?
Definition
Cook, April 19th, 1770
Term
What date is ANZAC Day?
Definition
April 25th
Term
ANZAC Day falls on the same day as what historical event in 1915?
Definition
Australia landed at Gallipoli
Term
What does ANZAC Day remember?
Definition
celebrates a defeat
Term
What is ANZAC Spirit?
Definition
sense of the the Aussie diggers bonding together
Term
How is ANZAC Day different than other countries’ memorial days?
Definition
doesn't remember the dead
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When we consider the backpackers who visit Gallipoli today what does it signify about the Australian spirit?
Definition
great travelers of the world
Term
What year was the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act passed?
Definition
1991
Term
What year was the Aboriginal Year of Mourning?
Definition
1988
Term
What two key days in the reconciliation process did the government fund?
Definition
Corroborree, The Bridge Walk
Term
What did Prime Minister John Howard refuse to do for the Indigenous population?
Definition
apologize to them
Term
Which Prime Minister finally apologized to the Indigenous population for past wrongs?
Definition
Kevin Rudd
Term
What is the name for the indigenous’ people’s embassy in Canberra?
Definition
Tent Embassy
Term
Who wrote and directed Not Quite Hollywood?
Definition
Mark Hartley
Term
What are Ozploitation films?
Definition
Australian Exploitation films
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What was Quentin Tarantino’s term for Ozploitation?
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Aussieploitation
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What does the term Ozploitation films refer to?
Definition
marriage of generic, populist, entertainment-based approach to filmmaking with a certain subversive, transgressive attitude
Term
Why aren’t theses films purely exploitation films?
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take Australian stereotypes and focus on those
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What change in Australian laws led to an influx of Ozploitation films?
Definition
10B80 tax laws, films were a huge tax write off
Term
How long did it take to make the documentary Not Quite Hollywood?
Definition
5 years
Term
What happened in cinema admission rules that allowed for the rise of Ozploitation films?
Definition
1971 addition of the R rating, were allowed to show more adult content on screen
Term
Who did Tarantino dedicate Kill Bill to?
Definition
Brian Trenchard Smith
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How did Tarantino assist in the making of Not Quite Hollywood?
Definition
interviewed throughout documentary, put together funding, got distribution in U.S.
Term
What is a bunyip as in The Naked Bunyip?
Definition
Australian mythical creature that lives in billabongs
Term
What was the name of the 1983 film about the exploits of two kids, and their friend Judy (Nicole Kidman), after stumbling upon a box of police-band walkie talkies?
Definition
BMX Bandits
Term
What famous Australian bushranger did Dennis Hopper play in the 1976 film of the same title?
Definition
Mad Dog Morgan
Term
How does the term ‘exploitation’ assist in marketing when in general usage?
Definition
people interested in lower moral values. what will they show us now?
Term
How is the term ‘exploitation’ different in cinematic terms?
Definition
deviate from expected cinematic literary codes
Term
Ozploitation films evolved into making what kind of commentary?
Definition
pushing political agenda
Term
Which film festival did Not Quite Hollywood open?
Definition
The Melbourne Underground Film Festival
Term
Which Aussie stuntman was the favorite for Ozploitation film makers?
Definition
Term
The movie SAW is based on a premise from which movie?
Definition
Mad Max
Term
What films are suggesting a revival in Ozploitation?
Definition
Wolf Creek, Day Breakers, Long Weekend
Term
Prior to Not Quite Hollywood what was the Australian Film Academia opinion of Ozploitation?
Definition
not critically acclaimed
Term
There has recently been a call of government funding to do what in regards to Australian cinema?
Definition
fund them
Term
How was The Adventures of Barry McKenxzie funded?
Definition
Australian Film Association
Term
Why was The Adventures of Barry McKenxzie funded?
Definition
thought film was going to make money
Term
Even though early Ozploitation films received government funding, what happened to these funding sources?
Definition
change in government
Term
What Ozploitation film was the directorial debut of Peter Weir?
Definition
The Cars that Ate Paris
Term
The Cars That Ate Paris inspired what famous Hollywood exploitation film?
Definition
Death Race 2000
Term
What was the disconnect during the 10BA period between exhibitors and producers?
Definition
exhibitors were tied up in American and British films, many films never made it to theaters, makeshift screenings
Term
What is the double meaning in the title Not Quite Hollywood?
Definition
films are nothing that Hollywood would have made but they're Hollywood-style films
Term
If we are to truly gauge the achievement (aesthetic, cultural, political) of any and all Australian films we need to ask what?
Definition
ask questions not so much on financial success but what they actually meant to Australians
Term
What is the issue when considering Australian films and their home grown audiences?
Definition
Term
Why all this feverish rewriting of Australian cinema history in the name of Ozploitation?
Definition
unrecognized and where we are going with Australian films and what type of stuff that is scarcely exportable
Term
What is the fear about the feverish rewriting of Australian cinema history in the name of Ozploitation?
Definition
is this how we want people to think Australians are like
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