Category Archive for: ‘Issue 22 – First Release’

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 time. Discussing a close up of Joslin’s eye that appears toward the end of the video, Phelan writes that as his eye “gazes in an out-of-focus way at something whose …

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 motion” and notes their closely linked development, particularly in France: “In some cases the same inventors worked on both . . . The combination of interest in spectatorship, projection 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 (4.6 million of viewers and 23.6% share). With the start of this series of twenty-seven episodes, the Spanish public channel, officially inaugurated in 1956, celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the …

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 half of the truth. While some elements have remained more or less constant, others have undergone significant changes. The theme of Anzac has provided an enduring source of inspiration for …

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, the first two-volume installment of Carl Sandburg’s popular multi-volume biography of Lincoln. But Neely apparently regards the film’s references to that “patchwork of folklore, poetic language, and history” (p. 124) …

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 premiered at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The premiere was held on the sixtieth anniversary of Mao Zedong’s famous “Serve the People” speech, given three days after …

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 the Office of Film and Literature Classification to show how the diffusion of Korean popular culture – better known as the ‘Korean wave’ (pronounced Han Ryu or Hallyu in Korean) – has spread beyond …