Introduction This article aims to expand our knowledge of the success or failure of sound technologies in the Australian exhibition market in the years between 1924 and 1929. Crucial to…
Introduction December 2002: After the Film and History Conference in Adelaide, I am flying home, having given my paper on Australians in early (1915-1925) Hollywood. I flip through the airline…
In the first few decades of the 20th century, many members of the Sydney elite, like civilized people throughout the world, feared the challenge posed to their old culture by the…
Australian cinema industries have always looked to the United States for the innovation of products and practices which can be put into place in Australia once they have been trialled…
As the title of C. J. Dennis's The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke might suggest, its narrative revolves around questions of masculinity, and as early as 1946, Dennis's biographer, A. H. Chisholm…
In a dream I had last night, I was about to address a seminar on the cinema. The members of the seminar were professors, some distinguished, some I knew. It…
In 1986, Michelangelo Antonioni exhibited a series of still images in Rome called Le montagne incantate, Magic Mountains. He painted watercolours of shapes resembling mountains. Some of the images were constructed collages…
In the 1950s the Australian public had little or no interest in supporting an Australian film industry. In fact, as Lee Robinson remarked some years later in an interview with…
The recent death of prolific Australian filmmaker Tim Burstall aged 76 marks a significant moment in Australian film culture. Perhaps more than any other Australian filmmaker over the last half-century…