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MODULE E - Australia's Cultural Life (p. 221)
TASK
Read the text below and fill in the blanks with the words in
the box.
| bush counterculture encouraged events gap influence isolation
landscapes masculinism films national novelist popular reflected
society songs successful superstars urban varied |
Australian culture was long dominated by the colonial … of
Britain and has only really succeeded in establishing a vibrant
… identity in the last seventy-five years or thereabouts. Perhaps
understandably in such a vast and … land the "bush"
exerted a massive influence over writers, artists and other creative
imaginations of the new land. … dominated painting, while stories,
music and … were permeated with the sense of dramatic …
those landscapes evoked.
Paradoxically, however, Australia has always been a characteristically
urban … and most recent literature, as well as the other arts,
have … this truth. The great novelist and Nobel laureate for
1973, Patrick White, represented this move from … to town in
Riders in the Chariot and The Vivisector. The urban
… of the 60s and later, which was greatly influenced by cultural
… in America and elsewhere, … feminist writers like Helen
Garner to totally reject the … of the bush thematic.
The bush provided much scope for the indigenous film industry as
well but … such as the immensely … Crocodile Dundee (1986)
with Paul Hogan also illustrate the bridging of the … between
rural and … . Since then, Aussie stars like Russell Crowe (Gladiator,
2000) and Kate Blanchett (Charlotte Gray, 2001) have taken
Hollywood by storm. Besides, Australian soap operas like Neighbours
and Home and Away are hugely … in Britain and America
while songsters like Kylie Minogue are world … . For Oz, the
"cultural cringe" is long forgotten
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