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HIST228 Australian Popular Culture

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level units in History or Australian Studies
Teaching Organisation Lectures, weekly seminars, films, videos, visits.

This unit raises fundamental questions and analysing aspects of popular culture in Australia, examining such matters as sport, leisure, popular arts, media and entertainment, humour and social rituals. It is designed to examine how general principles of popular cultural formation are manifested within Australia and analyses the production and maintenance of such cultures. The focus is on the ordinary, the sum of practices as well as the ideas constituting a peoples way of life.

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