Films are often constructions of reality, offering representations of the current issues within a society's culture. "Shame" is a 1988 Australian film that reflects some of the pernicious issues that have become naturalized in our real-life society, such as a deep rooted rape culture upheld by a dominant male discourse. ... Within the film, dialogue is used to expose how the sexual exploitation of women is an intrinsic part of Australian culture, displaying how rape has become a naturalized part of society. ... Dialogue is also used to represent how social judgment from an oppressively ma...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Anorexia Nervosa is said to arise in a culture that makes eating a problematic conversion of nature by culture. ... High risk groups include wrestlers, jockeys, dancers, gymnasts, runners, models, actresses, entertainers, male homosexuals and perhaps more alarmingly female university students. 94% of Australian female university students wan to be slimmer - although 31% are already underweight. ...

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The film "Gallipoli," by Peter Weir is a reflection of the views and opinions of what society considered to be masculine within an Australian culture. ... The origin of mate-ship comes from the men of Australian Outback. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The concept of power differs greatly from culture to culture. ... Australians very rarely understand how other countries perceive authority. ... Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view our own culture as superior to others, and relates to all cultures. Western cultures tend to discriminate against eastern cultures because of the roles that gender play. ... Many cultures strive for equality of the genders but in this department no culture will ever be equal. ...

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It appears that few are shocked and many surrender to the sometime extreme imaging and perverted innuendoes included in Australian advertisements. ... Maybe male sexuality is played down in popular culture because ultimately it can prove threatening to both women and men. ...

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