His100

What makes Australia? History of Australian popular

culture: The twentieth century and beyond

A twelve-unit course will have a total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours,
including online if required, self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student
workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Directed Study: One hour per week, it is expected that you will complete this before your weekly
workshop and or tutorial.
Weekly Reading: 30 minutes per week
Workshop: two hours per week, these are not recorded, attendance will be monitored each week and
all students are expected to attend.

The first assessment task is an analytical essay, due by 11:59 pm on Friday the thirty first of march.
The focus of this essay is the connections between the Anzac legend and notions of Australian
identity, as expressed in popular culture of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
Students are asked to produce a 1000-word essay that briefly defines popular culture and explains its
importance in historical enquiry, it should outline the history and purpose of the Anzac legend in
Australian history, it should also summarise contemporary debates about the Anzac legend and its
contribution to Australian identity and analyses two to four pop culture primary sources in relation to
the Anzac legend.

There are many different sources of information relating to Australia’s involvement in the first world
war, and the experiences of those who were directly or indirectly affected by this conflict. One of the
most prominent comes from the journalist/author Charles Bean, who worked as a war correspondent
during the War.
Russel Ward - The Bush Legend
For many years after, Bean’s official history of Australia of the war of 1914-1918 was the key
resource that historians consulted regarding Australia and WWI. In more recent times historians have
questioned the completeness of Bean’s content – it was censored/edited by military officials and we
cannot regard Bean as an unbiased observer.
Charles Bean encapsulated the meaning of Anzac in his Publication Anzac to Amiens.
Anti-Authoritarianism in the Anzac Legend??????
Loyalty to King, comrades and country??????
https://www.deadlystory.com/page/culture/articles/anzac-day-2018
The popular belief is that the ANZACs. Through their spirit, forged Australia’s national character.
These characteristics are seen as underpinning Australian values and if you demonstrate these
qualities, you are a true Australian. The Anzac spirit is still today frequently expressed especially
during a crisis. In 2006 the governor-general of Australia, Michael Jeffrey gave an address in which
he said that although the ANZACs lost the campaign they created a lasting identity for Australia.

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