Between Empire and Nation: Grierson in Australia
Uploaded 1 July 1999 | Modified 14 July 1999 In many of the international histories and accounts of documentary film John Grierson is afforded a substantial role. Numerous books on…
The Back of Beyond (1954): Pre-Production Contexts
In her book on The Back of Beyond (1954), Sylvia Lawson describes John Heyer’s Shell Film Unit production as “a key moment in Australian film history in general, not just…
Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image
John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel (eds.) Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image Minneapolis London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8166-6517-4 (Paperback) 376 pp US$27.50 (pb) (Review copy…
Introduction to Australian Film Theory and Criticism Project Interviews
The interviews to be published on a regular basis across this and future issues of Screening the Past derive from an ARC-funded project, entitled Australian Film Theory and Criticism, undertaken by Constantine Verevis…
Some Things You Never Learn: An Interview with Sam Rohdie
Sam Rohdie interviewed by Deane Williams Sam Rohdie is currently Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Film at the University of Central Florida. He has held the Chair in Film…
‘We Might Leave it There’: An Interview with William D. Routt
Bill Routt interviewed by Deane Williams [The opening question and most of the response to it were lost because of a technical hitch. However, we do know that the first question posed…
‘I’m going to be met by a phalanx of safari-suited men.’: An Interview with Lesley Stern
Lesley Stern interviewed by Deane Williams PHOTO: BECKY COHEN Professor Lesley Stern is the author of The Scorsese Connection (1995) and The Smoking Book (1999), and co-editor of Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance (1999).…
Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Peter Limbrick
Peter Limbrick, Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2010 ISBN: 978-0-230-10264-4 272 pp AUD$147.95 (hb)…
Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank’s American Cinema
George Kouvaros Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank’s American Cinema Minneapolis, London; University of Minnesota Press, 2015 ISBN: 978 0 8166-9559 1 $US25.00 (pb) $US15.23 e-book 225 pp I’m always doing…
Catherine Duncan: As Others See Us
Catherine Duncan's "As Others See Us". Introduction In 1948 Britain's Sight and Sound published Australian émigré Catherine Duncan's reflection on her experiences working with the Film Division of the Department of Information. Although…
Introduction to Australian Film Theory and Criticism Project Interviews
The interviews to be published on a regular basis across this and future issues of Screening the Past derive from an ARC-funded project, entitled Australian Film Theory and Criticism, undertaken by Constantine Verevis…
‘The Circulation of Ideas’: An Interview with Tom O’Regan
This is the latest in a series of interviews we are publishing examining a key period in Australian screen culture. For more information, see the “Introduction to Australian Film Theory and…
Shifts and Interventions: Cultural Materialism and Australian Film History
Introduction This paper seeks to understand a curious moment in Australian film history: the publication of Albert Moran and Tom O’Regan’s “Two Discourses of Australian Film” (1983) which was closely…