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CTV Quiz #8
CTV 3310 Quiz #8
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
03/20/2012

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Who sang ‘I Still Call Australia Home’?
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Peter Allen
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The Heidelberg school existed prior to what date?
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1901
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How did the Heidelberg school bring a nationalistic agenda to their paintings?
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tried to show how Australia was distinctly different from the mother country
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What did the Heidelberg School art tell new or emerging Australians?
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Australia was about hard work and the love of our land
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In literature during the Heidelberg School era, Australians were defined as being?
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What does Australian music battle?
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American cultural imperialism
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How is grassroots Australian music different than American imports?
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American music is very commercialize, Australian music is "pub music"
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What Midnight Oil song had a huge influence on the fight for indigenous land rights?
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Beds are Burning
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What function does indigenous music play in indigenous communities?
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expression of indigenous beliefs and political rallying cry
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What is the function of hip-hop & rap in Australian music?
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rebellious music
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Prior to Australia’s Film Renaissance what was the Australian government’s attitude about the Arts?
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censorship, protect Australians from own immorality
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What was the name of the conservative Prime Minister who ruled from 1949 to 1963?
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Robert Menzies
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In the 1960s how many Australian plays were produced?
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4
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By the late 1960s Australians realized who owned large tracts of cattle country?
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British and Texans
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Which Prime Minister began to reverse the trend of foreign ownership?
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John Gorton
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Philip Adams proposed that Australians needed what to Gorton?
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Australians needed to see their own landscape, hear their own voices, and dream their own dreams in TV and film, "common imaginary"
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What was the intent of the Experimental Film Fund?
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to give people money to make short films, to prove they had the skill set to go to Australian Film, Television, and Radio School (AFTRS)
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What were the first 3 acts of Gough Whitlam upon election?
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withdraw troops for Vietnam, recognized China as a nation for political talks, immediately started funding the arts
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Which Broadway performer appears in Barry MacKenzie Holds His Own?
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Barry Humphries
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What was Gough Whitlam’s campaign slogan?
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"It's Time"
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Besides federal support the Australian film industry quickly garnished support from what?
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state governments
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Early Australian films by and large were elegiac images of what?
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failure
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What film was the first successful Australian film to show a hero achieves success?
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Mad Max
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Who plays the father in The Sum of Us?
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Jack Thompson
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Who plays the gay sun Jeff in The Sum of Us?
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Russell Crowe
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Who wrote The Sum of Us?
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David Stevens
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The Sum of Us was released during what period of cinematic revolution in Australian cinema?
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2nd renaissance
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In the 1990s what Australian policies were prominent?
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multiculturalism and rights for gays
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How was The Sum of Us like many films of the early 1990s different from the films of the 1980s?
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driven by dialogue
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How is The Sum of Us typical of a number of films in the early to mid 1990s?
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original, pushed the boundaries of cinema
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The Sum of Us exhibits what familiar traits that are distinctive to Australia's national cinema?
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mundane urban life, ordinary, working-class characters
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Even though Jeff is homosexual in The Sum of Us he still exhibits what?
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overt masculinity
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What valuable place does The Sum of Us have in contemporary critical and market horizons?
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advanced a political agenda in Australia besides the gay one, talks about how Australians fund films, Australian Film Finance Corporation
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