This article was written in 2003. The author has administered a web-site on Western Australian cinemas for many years. Further information about all sites mentioned in this article can be…
[1] "Mexicans with mobiles" is a phrase used by American crews working in Australia (Australia as a Film Location: Wallaby-wood, 84). "Mexicans with parkas" is the Canadian version of the…
Birch, Carroll and Coyle established Wintergarden Theatres at Ipswich, Bundaberg, Maryborough, Rockhampton and Townsville, during the second half of the 1920s. Research undertaken by the authors confirms their significant role…
This is the first of a sequence of three papers, which deal with the formative years (until 1972) of Australia's two major international film festivals, Sydney and Melbourne. These papers…
I teach classes in criticism and history in an essentially film production department. These writings were prepared for students in a film history class. The classes met once a week…
Some explanation Historical memory is most often a matter of textual presence, and this paper constitutes an absence, which somehow seems fitting. As I remember it, the earliest version of…
[1] Looking for Alibrandi (Australia, 2000) is significant not only because it is the financially most successful Australian teen film [2] and a winner of five AFI awards. [3] This film…