Everything seems to be plodding along not great, not awful but OK.Then you pick up a crumpled piece of paper that reads ASSIGMENT TWO.
"Oh yeah" you think in your little messed up head, those are those things that we do at uni. To your dismay, the due date was actually yesterday. To your further dismay the question reads something exactly like this...
Dermody and Jacka argue that Australian Films are symptomatic of a second world social imaginary. O'Regan argues that Australia's British Origin is now included in either European derived or diasporic concepts of nationhood, and that New World and multicultural identities are more inclusive.
Analyse one of the following films as a symptom of an Australian social imaginary shaped by a new world or a multicultural concept of nationhood: fistfull of flies, Head On, Looking For Alibrandi, Beneath Clouds, Night Cries, One Night the Moon or The Tracker.
If anybody is sadistic enough to write this up in a lovely 1500 word essay, send it my way!
5 comments:
Don't cry, my darling.
The actual question part doesn't seem too hard. (Not that I know what a "social imaginary" is.) And seeing as it's only 1500, they probably don't expect you to do that much research, right? Just watch one of the films and write about how multiculturalism and conflicting national identity are represented in narrative and technical ways. Then link it back to stuff a few choice quotes from the reader.
Just analyse it to death and they'll love you!
Good luck!
Bah to those Aussie films, say the stubborn Aussie identity within you demands they accept a review of one of the following instead:
Romper Stomper
Idiot Box
Body Melt
Bad Boy Bubby
Naaa the funny thing is, she isnt really interested in talking about the film itself. Its more like a history lesson she wants. I need to regurgitate theorists from the yr olde days. Some cinema subject!
hey svet, hope your ok! i'll admit i actually zoned out halfway through reading the question, so i think im way way outta the uni loop. so cant offer you any real advice, but can offer you this, if you want i can bring you home some cannabis flavoured absinthe, that should make all your troubles, and a few million brain cells, go away!
15 days till i return!!
love you!!! xxxxxoooooo
Lucy: I zoned out a million times reading that question so you can imagine how well my essay turned out...
Cannibis FLAVOURED? hmmm that wouldnt taste very nice. But cannibis effects is a very different thing...
Hils: Thanks for your encouragement. I will keep trooping if you keep wearing your inner 7ryold on the outer.
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