We create maps to better understand and explain the things around us. So many of us grew up with a map on the back of the bathroom door, but have most likely taken its significance for granted. I for one had never considered the importance of mapping and its implications for those not only doing the … Continue reading
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Barbarians, Brainiacs and Belly Dancers
In short, Orientalism is described as the scholarly study of the ‘Orient,’ which is said to be the area between North Africa and Japan or in other words, pretty much anywhere East in relation to Europe. The history of the Orient itself has been characterised by violence and domination during the various stages of European colonisation. In … Continue reading
Mediated Suffering: Why we can’t look away
Media convergence has allowed access to images and content to fuel our fascination with catastrophe and all things traumatic to our heart’s content. I know that myself, I have always been drawn to extremely traumatic events – ranging from but not limited to natural disasters, war and particularly brutal crimes. If you were to take a look at … Continue reading
Modern Activism
Image Source My proposed project is to explore the ways that students engage with and participate in global events through different sources of media. One of the main areas I wish to delve into is digital/cyber activism, and ask students what they think about this phenomenon. Do they agree with it/ think it is in any … Continue reading
Curiosity
Curiosity. The reason for a great deal of many of my good, and just as many of my bad decisions. Despite my hate for the cold, I’ve booked a trip this year to visit a bit of northern and eastern Europe with a bit of Scandinavia and Russia thrown in there. While I would’ve liked … Continue reading
The way we watch favours global cultural diversity over Australian content
Due to the attitudes of Australian audiences towards Australian content, it is no surprise that we prefer to watch overseas content. As I have discussed in a number of previous blog posts, a lot of this comes down to access and distribution/marketing of Australian films. Also as our viewing habits evolve and change over to predominantly … Continue reading
Is it time to give up on Australian content?
My answer is a firm, no. Why? Because as we can see – there have been some seriously great things come out of Australia in recent years, whether the box office reflects it or not. Films such as The Babadook (2014), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Water Diviner (2015), the list goes on. In … Continue reading
Culture vs Jobs
As we are very well aware, Australian culture is the driving force behind almost all of Australian content. However, we very rarely hear about jobs in the Australian film industry being of cause for concern, at least not on the scale of culture. Based on the almost impossibility of securing funding from the government, it … Continue reading
Cultural Overload
As discussed throughout my previous blog posts, the emphasis on culture in Australian content is obvious – however, is this depiction of our culture doing us more harm than good or is it even having an effect? If you form an image of Australian culture based on some our most successful films internationally, we would … Continue reading
The problem isn’t Australian films, it’s Australian audiences
As I discussed in my earlier blog post, “Assumptions about Australian content,’ it can be said that Australians just do not like Australian content. Judging from box office returns alone, that point certainly can be made – however the box office is not the only place that we can gather this kind of information. In recent … Continue reading
Lucy Marsden 