澳大利亚文化生活.ppt

1、Australia Cultural Life,1.Religion 2.Sport 3.Literature 4.Film,1.Religion,Dreaming (梦创信仰),Protestantism (新教教义),Contrast,A people being at one with the country.,People at the top of the society,Colonised by the British,Protestantism was already the religion of the Western governing colonial class,Chr

2、istianity dominate NE16th now,Its development coincided with the development of the new form of political economy of the West,By 1805,Social class difference,We are equal before god,Anglicanism (圣公会教义),In the latter half of the 19th century,Catholicism (天主教),The move to multiculturalism in 1970s,The

3、 Australian Labor Party,Catholic education,Non-Christian,Buddhism,Islam,Hinduism,Multi-cultural society,Australia described as a secular society?,“lukewarm” religious society,What other source of cultural and social influence are there today? -Sport,Many features of sport in Australia seem to reflec

4、t the patterns of religion.,Sport,Rituals of sport,Ritually, every Saturday hundreds of thousands of Australians gather at sports fields and arenas in every city. Many Australian sport fans carry emblems representing the teams symbolic creatures-the Magpies, the Bulls, the Roosters and many others.

5、People watch a performance that is ritualistic in its weekly repetition of the moves of the game.,The principal games are usually a form of football. Sport is like Christianity: it has many variants. Other sports: cricket, hockey, basketball, beach volleyball, athletics, swimming,Netball is the most

6、 popular game in terms of the numbers who play the game, although it does not attract as many spectators as football, perhaps because it is usually played by women.,Sport also has positive characteristics:,It creates a sense of community It encourages exercise It improves physical fitness,The histor

7、y of Australian literature covers an immense field ,from the Dreamtime stories ,myths and legends to the various forms of Australian literature in the English language Writings from Australian over the first few decades were written in the English style for an English audience. During the next few d

8、ecades Australian writers began to write from a more Australian perspective focusing on constructing this new Australian identity .,Australian Literature,The classic novel of convinct life was Marcus Clarkes for the term of his natural life .Henry Lawson writes the life of the bush. Parson wrote yea

9、rningly the “romance of the Bush”. It was this realism that defined the early 20th century. Writers including miles Franklin, Barbara Baynton. The increasing industrialization of the early 20th century meant a move away from the rural bases of the earlier Australian literature. Urban Australian life

10、 was represented by both the romantics and the realists.,Similarly ,in the 1950s and 1960s many Australian writers echoed Christina steads earlier awareness that to gain a name they had to leave Australian. Most went to Europe. Charmaine Clift ,George Johnston and many other famous writers all went

11、abroad.,By 1973 , the dominating figure in Australian literature ,Patrick white ,won the Nobel Prize for Literature by his book “the eye of the storm”. He was the first Australian to win the prize. Ruth park ,a new Zealander who spent most of her life in Australian ,also won many literature awards f

12、or her works.,Thomas Keneally is one of the most outstanding Australian writers who contributed a lot to the world literature. His novels and non-fiction works include “Three Cheers for the Paraclete”, “The Chant of Jimmy Black Smith”, etc. Peter Carey has made a parallel contribution, and his novel

13、s include “The Tax Inspector” ,”The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith”, “Jack Magges”, etc.,There is a strong link in Australian between literature and film .there are too many recent novels that has been translated into films .from award winning novels are peter Carys bliss ,and Oscar and Lucinda ,Patr

14、ick whites novel “The eye of the Storm”.,Films,However, probably the most influential film based on a novel by an Australian author has been Spielbergs film of Thomas Keneallys Schindlers Ark(1982), renamed as Schindlers list.,Nowadays, “going to the picture” is still one of the most popular forms o

15、f entertainment in Australia. In the 1920s and1930 The introduction of “talking picture”(有声电影)，then Technicolor films（彩色电影）1930s,it became much cheaper to buy ready made overseas films and TV programmes from the UK and Hollywood.,Australian culture was being swamped,So Australian government interven

16、ed in the 1970s and 1980s 【the new wave】 by providing funding bodies both for the production of films and in training of film markers.所以澳大利亚政府在70、80年代进行了干预，为制作电影和培训电影制作者设立基金组织。,Judy Davis 朱迪 戴维斯,Sam Neill 山姆 尼尔,Nicole Kidman 妮可 基德曼,In 21st century The Rabbit Proof Fence 陌路小狂花 Samson and Delilah 萨姆森和

17、黛利拉 Ten Canoes 十只独木舟 : the first Australian film made in an Australian language other than English These three movies are giving Australians new narratives,Thank You!,Thank You!,The history of Australian literature covers an immense field ,from the Dreamtime stories ,myths and legends to the various

18、 forms of Australian literature in the English language Writings from Australian over the first few decades were written in the English style for an English audience. During the next few decades Australian writers began to write from a more Australian perspective focusing on constructing this new Au

19、stralian identity .,Australian Literature,The classic novel of convinct life was Marcus Clarkes for the term of his natural life .Henry Lawson writes the life of the bush. Parson wrote yearningly the “romance of the Bush”. It was this realism that defined the early 20th century. Writers including mi

20、les Franklin, Barbara Baynton. The increasing industrialization of the early 20th century meant a move away from the rural bases of the earlier Australian literature. Urban Australian life was represented by both the romantics and the realists.,Similarly ,in the 1950s and 1960s many Australian write

21、rs echoed Christina steads earlier awareness that to gain a name they had to leave Australian. Most went to Europe. Charmaine Clift ,George Johnston and many other famous writers all went abroad.,By 1973 , the dominating figure in Australian literature ,Patrick white ,won the Nobel Prize for Literat

22、ure by his book “the eye of the storm”. He was the first Australian to win the prize. Ruth park ,a new Zealander who spent most of her life in Australian ,also won many literature awards for her works.,Thomas Keneally is one of the most outstanding Australian writers who contributed a lot to the wor

23、ld literature. His novels and non-fiction works include “Three Cheers for the Paraclete”, “The Chant of Jimmy Black Smith”, etc. Peter Carey has made a parallel contribution, and his novels include “The Tax Inspector” ,”The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith”, “Jack Magges”, etc.,There is a strong link i

24、n Australian between literature and film .there are too many recent novels that has been translated into films .from award winning novels are peter Carys bliss ,and Oscar and Lucinda ,Patrick whites novel “The eye of the Storm”.,Films,However, probably the most influential film based on a novel by an Australian author has been Spielbergs film of Thomas Keneallys Schindlers Ark(1982), renamed as Schindlers list.,Nowadays, “going to the picture” is