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The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 2002 9(1):82-118; doi:10.1093/ywcct/mbe008
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8 Australian Popular Culture and Media Studies

TARA BRABAZON
Rarely have intellectual debates in Australia been waged with such rigour, or vitriol. Certainly, the ideological stakes are high. Notions of truth, journalistic ethics, political resistance and the changing standards of literacy draw both heat and attention. The success of Australian cinema and the thrust of the 2000 Sydney Olympics are minor players in major political debates over culture. The media is the focus of excited debate, with both tabloid journalism and the Internet remaining motifs and metaphors for either democratization or demoralization of the body politic. This review features the nine recurring contestations of the year: 1. The Popular Intellectual; 2. Beyond the Black Armband; 3. Space, Place and Popular Culture; 4. Sporting a Better Body; 5. The Real Matilda and Generations of Feminism; 6. The Internet: Critique and Creativity; 7. National Screen; 8. Sounding Off: The Rhythms of Radio; 9. Tabloid Wars.


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