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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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| 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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| What theme was explored on Australian cinema in the 1990s that had previously been ignored? |
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| Which gender took a stronger role in Australian cinema of the 1990s? |
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| Which Oscar-nominated Australian co-production was the most successful feminist film of the 1990s? |
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| Which Australian city rose to the forefront of film making in the 1990s? |
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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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| 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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| What was the budget for the production of Strictly Ballroom? |
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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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| How is the film the anti-thesis to the Outback image of Australia? |
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| 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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| 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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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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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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| Why was Antarctica truly terra nullius? |
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| Antarctica has the reputation for making a man go what? |
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| There is a tension in Australia of recognizing the land as beautiful but also… |
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| 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? |
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