Author Archive for: ‘Various Authors’

Radical Beginnings is an oral history project exploring La Trobe University’s own cultural and screen studies history during a period of political and artistic ferment, the late 1960s and early 1970s, that coincided with the establishment of the University. A symposium was held at the university campus that was a two-day feast of films, filmmakers and key media figures of …

Panel Two: ‘Film and student protest: Beginnings’ With Scott Murray, Gordon Glenn, Rod Bishop and Peter Beilby, chaired by Rolando Caputo Rolando Caputo: Welcome to panel number two. We didn’t actually think of structuring the panels in this way, but in the Q & A session of panel one there was so much discussion about the points of views from …

Panel Three: Film ferment: Yackety Yack With Dave Jones, John Flaus, Rod Bishop, Peter Carmody and Peggy Cole, chaired by Anna Dzenis Anna Dzenis: Welcome to ‘Film Ferment’, our third panel in our Radical Beginnings: The Birth of Media and Cinema Studies at La Trobe University symposium. This panel focuses on the feature film Yackety Yack (1974), a film that …

Panel Four: Plenary Session with Patricia Edgar, Rod Bishop, Dave Jones, Scott Murray, Ina Bertrand, Gordon Glenn, Robert Newton, chaired by Dr. Mary Debrett Mary Debrett: It has been said that those who remember the 1970s weren’t there. I think this symposium has disproved that. But there’s another cliché I want to explore and that’s the idea of wisdom in …

Yackety Yack is perhaps the most hilarious film ever made in Australia, in large part because of the character of Maurice, played by none other than the film’s writer-director Dave Jones, who shot the film in 1973 while on staff at the Media Centre of La Trobe University. Maurice is an academic up for a tenured post (as was Jones …