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    This taught them that they should fight for what they want or what they believe is the right thing to do. During the movie it explains how certain people within the community has had their life changed in a dramatic way because of the choices they made, the most dramatic life decisions that they made has something to do when they were with Red Dog. Red Dog symbolised the

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    Sound effects are essential to this film as its sets the scene of the outback desert of Australia. When the main characters Molly, Daisy and Gracie are traveling across Western Australia to get o Moore River there isn’t any music but there are many sound effects such as trains going along the tracks and a car traveling across dirt roads. Music has also made you in this movie feel the emotions of Molly, Daisy and Gracie when they are being taken into their dormitory at the Moore River

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    history, era before 1914, we find out that Australia was counted as one of the biggest film making countries of the world. This Australian film industry took the honor of being first to produce world's first feature film in 1906, The Story of the Kelly Gang. The local movie production was on its peak in year, 1911 in which fifty one movies were released (Pike and Cooper, 1998). Although this number does not seem very impressive today but in those times, Australia was counted as the fastest film producing

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    Through Australian film Australia to discuss its multicultural identity. 1. Introduction It is proudly acknowledged that Australia has played a role of the pioneers in the sublime world film industry, leaving abundant benefits to the nation so as to obtain a relative cinematic enjoyment in the contemporary era. Along with strong adherence to its multicultural value, it is foundational to the discourse of Aussie cinema. Australian movies not only are able to help enrich the establishment of national

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    would be visiting the history of film in Australia, its cultural importance and significance and its distinct examples in modern day film. The Australian film industry has over the years revolutionized from what was called a silent era, to the sound era and then the new wave. The silent era as the name implies featured film making without the use of sound while the sound era introduced the addition of sound to films. From the years 1906 to 1911, Australia happened to be the most prolific producer

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    On today’s episode, we’ll be focusing on the Australian film industry, and more specifically, how the gothic trope of the Australian outback is manipulated to present Australian identity. One of the better examples of this manipulation is the movie Australia, directed by Baz Lurhman. Lurhman has used narrative, aesthetic and cinematic techniques to distort and manipulate the gothic trope throughout the film. Gothic is known as the literary, artistic and architectural style which originated in the

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    Australians from land and family had an impact on Australia. Today’s oral presentation will discuss: the time that the rabbit proof fence was set in, why Doris Pilkington Garimara created the text and how the audience is positioned to view the indigenous perspective through its use of multimodal elements. The author of the rabbit proof fence has shown lots about Australian history over those past years of the white taking the aboriginals land and children. The movie is based on the stolen

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    a. Dingo-a wild dog in Australia b. Bandicoot-a small animal in Australia that looks like a cross between a rat and a rabbit c. Goanna- a term used to denote a type of lizard in Australia d. going bush-embarking on adventures in Australia's outback e. bush [as terrain] outside of town terrain f. dreamtime-the belief by Aboriginals of how the world was created g. walkabout-an indefinite walk outside in wild terrain performed by Aborigines h. frame tale as a literary term- stories inside

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    Rabbit Proof Fence is a movie which shows how aboriginal people are mistreated and about the ups and downs of life and how life can be unfair due to the conduct of human beings in the means of Ethnicity, Nation, Racism and Conflict. This whole movie shows a disgraceful and ugly part of the Australian History. The movie Rabbit Proof Fence, demonstrate the terrible nature of the cruelty suffered by aboriginal families because of the white Australians and the politicians. During the early years of

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    Usually when I think of Australian cinema, the first couple of movies that come to mind are the Mad Max films, Crocodile Dundee and Strictly Ballroom. These are all great Australian classics but I find that there’s one movie that perfectly encapsulates the true Australian culture through a simplistic story. For me it’s Gregor Jordan’s, Two Hands released in 1999, an amusing yet interesting film which features a young Heath Ledger playing the role of Jimmy, a bouncer at a nightclub in Kings Cross

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