1. Choose an Australian television program and analyse the gendered narratives that are depicted in the program. You will need to draw on at least four episodes of the program.
2. Warwick Mules argues that in some recent Australian films and television the figure of the new man emerges in a complex set of relations between new man and old man values. Choose either a television program or two recent films and apply Mules’ argument to analyse how masculinity is being problematized in contemporary popular culture.
3. Music has often been used by Indigenous Australians as a form of identity and resistance. Choose an Indigenous musician/ band and analyse how their music has served these functions. Make use (where relevant) of song lyrics, video clips, band websites and media reportage in your response.
4. Choose an Indigenous film director and analyse their work to discuss how they have used film to explore Aboriginal identity in contemporary Australia. In addition to the film themselves you should also draw on profile pieces/interviews with the film-makers and media reportage about the films/director.
5. Analyse the media coverage of a particular sporting event involving Australian competitors/teams, whether male or female (the Ashes, the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Cricket/Soccer/Rugby World Cup) to explore the connections between sport and national identity.
   1. In 2012 the Australian Sports Commission released its revised sport policy, The Winning Edge. Identify the key components, the rationale that underpins the policy and its reception. What narratives of Australian sporting culture are evident in the strategy?
   2. Ben Goldsmith argues that ‘dynamic and shifting relations between the local/national and the international have transformed the ways in which we might think about what constitutes Australian cinema’. (199) Discuss how the meaning of Australian cinema has been redefined in relation to two recent Australian films.
   3. Choose an Australian television program derived from a global format. Analyse the extent to which the program been localised for an Australian audience. Draw on examples from several episodes of the program. It is essential that your response demonstrates you have watched the program!
      1. In 2013 the Rudd government established the Live Music Office (livemusicoffice.com.au) to increase opportunities for live music in Australia. Using the live music office website and other sources analyse why live music is constructed as an essential component of Australian culture.
      2. Radio station triple j occupies contested ground in Australia’s cultural landscape. The radio station positions itself as performing an important role, particularly with regard to supporting Australian music. Critics argue that triple j has helped to produce homogenisation in new Australian music. Identify and assess the arguments for and against triple j and discuss who makes the stronger case.
         1. Use local food media to analyse how food culture is represented as a significant element in Brisbane’s contemporary cultural landscape.
         12. Trace the growth of Australia’s ‘coffee culture’ and explore how and why it is constructed as distinctive.

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