Synopses & Reviews
Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the work of some of Australia's leading cultural analysts, its concerns range broadly across the cultural sector encompassing art and heritage institutions, publishing, broadcasting, tourism, museums, the music industry, film and youth cultures.
Review
"...a timely collection which surveys a broad cross-section of policies and programs which administer culture in Australia. ...the most comprehensive discussion of government/culture relations and their articulation to different forms of identity in Australia which has been published to date." Media International Australia
Synopsis
A survey of the changing policies and priorities that are evident in a range of contemporary cultural institutions in Australia.
Table of Contents
SECTION 1: POLICY AND INDUSTRY CONTEXTS Introduction; 1 Knowing the Processes but not the Outcomes: Australian Cinema Faces the Millennium; Tom O'Regan; 2 Globalisation, Regionalism and Australianisation in Music: Lessons From the Parallel Importing Debate; David Rowe; 3 Reshaping Australian Art Institutions; Terry Smith; 4 Tourism: Leisure, Culture, Industry; Jennifer Craik; 5 Coombs: Cultural Policies and Continuities; Tim Rowse; SECTION 2: AUSTRALIAN CULTURE AND ITS PUBLICS Introduction; 6 The Writing Public: Literature and the Commercial Spirit; David Carter and Kay Ferres; 7 Reshaping Public Institutions: Popular Culture, the Market and the Public Sphere; Greame Turner; 8 Public Service Broadcasting: Multiple Publics, Values and the Popular; Gay Hawkins; 9 Men, Women, Class and Culture; Tony Bennett, Michael Emmison and John Frow; 10 Lost Horizons: Searching for Youth Culture in the Postmodern Public Sphere; Catharine Lumby; 11 Gender and the Governmentalisation of Australian Amateur Sport; Jim McKay, Geoffrey Lawrence, Toby Miller and David Rowe; SECTION 3: PROGRAMS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY Introduction; 12 Multiculturalism: Contested Agendas; James Jupp; 13 'Race' Portraits and Vernacular Possibilities: Pluralism, Heritage and Cultural Institutions; Chris Healy; 14 Indigenous Presences and National Narratives in Australian Museums; Nicholas Thomas; 15 Electronic Networking: Indigenous Media and Communications in Australia; Helen Molnar; 16 Regional Cultures; Robin Trotter