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This study argues that post-1970 Australian film is best described not as exhibiting phenomenal variety but as focused on a conception of heroism characterized by the love of freedom, the resentment of authority, and attachment to the land, along with anti- intellectualism, fatalism, and sexism.

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This perspective on Congressional debating, derived from the theoretical work of Mikhail Bakhtin, argues against several often unvoiced assumptions: that such debating is tedious and inconsequential; that debates are inherently bipolar; and that they are "finalizable".