Tom O’Regan & Huw Walmsley-Evans

Critical Communication and the Coming of Sound: How Talkies (Re)Made the Film Review

Post author:Tom O’Regan & Huw Walmsley-Evans
Post published:November 8, 2022
Post category:Issue 46 - First Release

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…

Towards a History of Australian Film Criticism

Post author:Tom O’Regan & Huw Walmsley-Evans
Post published:June 30, 2015
Post category:Issue 39 - First Release

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…