Issue 22 – Tenth Anniversary

Screening the Past began ten years ago and this issue celebrates that decade of publishing. In the first 21 issues we ran: 153 First Run articles; 15 Classics and Re-Runs articles;…

Once upon a time, an Australian academic life consisted of three elements: a contribution to the subject which the academic taught and researched, a contribution to the administration of the…

The pun of our journal's name should not be ignored in the context of remembering what we hoped for it ten years ago and what it may actually have accomplished.…

In August 1999 I presented a paper at the Infog 99 conference in Melbourne, which was based on our experience to that point in time, of publishing Screening the Past. The…

[1] Out of the blue, a little over ten years ago, Melvyn Stokes telephoned me. He was beginning his annual task of organising the Commonwealth Fund conference on American history…

Once upon a time there was a country struggling over whether it should be known as Aotearoa or New Zealand. Then a joker by the name of Peter Jackson came…

As part of Screening the Past's tenth anniversary, we invited about 300 colleagues around Australia and the world to nominate the most important contributions to the field in the past decade…

Ten years of Screening the Past is reason for congratulation and celebration! But it also merits some reflection. The news that the journal has been going for a decade has come as…

Numerous disciplines have, over the years, adopted, adapted, and incorporated film studies into their curricula. Introducing film studies into the curriculum is an effective way of retaining viable student numbers…

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon is punctuated by dates crossed out in red on the calendar that mark the time left before the retirement of Captain Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) from…

Authors - 278 of them - published in issues 1-21 of Screening the Past STP could not exist without its contributors. The editors take this opportunity to acknowledge you and to…