In her chapter on Tom Joslin’s video AIDS diary Silverlake Life: The View from here (1993), Peggy Phelan argues that Joslin’s video summons and directs its viewer to a kind of off-screen…
Cinema and aviation are quintessential enterprises of the modern era. Alison McMahon, in her study of pioneering filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché, refers to film and flying as “the industries of…
On February 3, 2004, the First Channel of Televisión Española (TVE) broadcast Memoria de España (Spanish Memory), one of its most recent and successful historical documentary productions,[1] to a great audience…
The Anzac legend is central to the Australian identity, drawing on elements of the bush myth and White Australia. The legend can appear monolithic and fixed, but this is only…
According to Mark E. Neely Young Mr. Lincoln “was mostly fiction, and corny fiction at that” (p. 126). The historian acknowledges that the film’s content had been “largely dictated” by The Prairie Years,…
In September 2004, Zhang Side, a black and white biopic about the life and death of a soldier stationed in the Communist base camp in Yan’an during World War Two, was…
This article examines the global popularity of South Korea’s contemporary commercial cinema within an Australian context. It uses audience survey findings, industry interviews and national classification database records administered by…