Strangers in paradise
Description
Twelve American and British tourists go on a ten day guided tour of Australia at the height of the Bicentennial celebrations and are swept along in the tide of Australia's 200th birthday.The tourists provide an enthusiastic but captive audience to vignettes presenting the richness of Australian culture -- the sheep stations, the War Memorial, koala spotting, the Vegemite song -- all delivered with aggressive hospitality by their Australian tour guides. In Central Australia the tourists visit a traditional Aboriginal "camp" and it is here that the careful stage management fails. This is not what the tourist's expected. Behind this version of "the noble savage" they see only sadness and injustice.
Runtime
56 min
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
1989
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AUSV;2711634
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