Author Archive for: ‘Tom O’Regan & Huw Walmsley-Evans’

Introduction: Screening the Past continues its tribute to the legacy of Tom O’Regan (1956-2020) by publishing, for the first time, this essay co-authored by Huw Walmsley-Evans (also of University of Queensland). Tom sent it to me in 2018 for my opinion, as it had not yet found a home at that time. It offers an elaboration, along a different axis, …

The “public” spaces of film criticism – by which we mean film reviews and essays – are what most Australians think of as comprising film criticism. These public spaces of criticism were established at the inception of the cinema in Australia, [1] and have been developing alongside broader media transformations ever since. While a fixture of film culture in Australia as …