Culture in Australia

• Part I. Policy and Industry Contexts: Introduction; 1. Knowing the processes but not the outcomes: Australian cinema faces the millennium Tom O'Regan; 2. Globalisation, regionalism and Australianisation in music: lessons from the parallel importing debate David Rowe; 3. Reshaping Australian art institutions Terry Smith; 4. Tourism: leisure, culture, industry Jennifer Craik; 5. Coombs: cultural policies and continuities Tim Rowse; Part II. Australian Culture and its Publics: Introduction; 6. The writing public: literature and the commercial spirit David Carter and Kay Ferres; 7. Reshaping public institutions: popular culture, the market and the public sphere Graeme Turner; 8. Public service broadcasting: multiple publics, values and the popular Gay Hawkins; 9. Men, women, class and culture Tony Bennett, Michael Emmison and John Frow; 10. Lost horizons: searching for youth culture in the postmodern public sphere Catharine Lumby; 11. Gender and the governmentalisation of Australian amateur sport Jim McKay, Geoffrey Lawrence, Toby Miller and David Rowe; Part III. Programs of Cultural Diversity: Introduction; 12. Multiculturalism: contested agendas James Jupp; 13. 'Race' portraits and vernacular possibilities: pluralism, heritage and cultural institutions Chris Healy; 14. Indigenous presences and national narratives in Australian museums Nicholas Thomas; 15. Electronic networking: indigenous media and communications in Australia Helen Molnar; 16. Regional cultures Robin Trotter.

'It has the potential to challenge professionals to think about the constructions of Australian culture and its impact on shaping their own lives, both professional and personal, as well as those of students and clients whom they encounter.' Journal of Family Studies