It's been impressive, therefore, to see Home and Away (Seven) not only explore the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli, but also manage a critique of how teenagers engage with a "legend" they feel is no longer relevant to them.
Consider it an irony of alien disaster movies that they manage to critique U.S. military ambitions vis-à-vis the "primitive" natives of far-off lands (even if none of us and few of the filmmakers know it).
Like Ball, Gaillard manages to critique the actions while holding back on condemning individuals.
Three are then cross-examined by their peers, and it's a hoot; but it's also about teamwork, performance, public speaking and more, and Powell-Brace manages to both critique and encourage them.
An art of power and protest turned into an easily-shareable, pre-packaged Instagram filter that manages to avoid critique through being "honest," or "real". .
Few manage to escape his damning critiques – including the country's often-overlooked intellectual elite.
We critique a proposal to use catch shares to manage transboundary wildlife resources with potentially high non-extractive values, and we focus on the case of whales.
While the critique of U.S. military strategy is searing, both authors manage to avoid the fundamental issue in American wars overseas -- the very wrongness of invasion and occupation.
And with this very deliberate fun, Russell has managed to extend his critique beyond the film screen into the world of weblogging, web marketing and ego formation.
The fringe events were flat, though at one of them the dependably fascinating backbencher Jon Cruddas managed to launch a critique of Labour's electoral predicament via an analogy about the great Portugese footballer Luis Figo.
Despite this critique, ASA manages to create a professional framework, a discourse, and a set of intellectual concerns that brings together scholars across a number of disciplines from art history, gender studies, history, literature, music, sociology to a host of other interdisciplinary programs.
