Category Archive for: ‘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; 7 guest-edited, special-themed issues with 12 guest editors; 416 reviews (mainly books), an average of 19.8 per issue; and work by 278 contributors (listed in the special “Tenth Anniversary” section …

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 institution, and a contribution to the wider academic and social culture. The first got you the job, the second grew in importance as you progressed up the institutional ladder, and …

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. On the face of it, the name tells everyone what we are about: visual media and history. But surely everyone also knows that in screening some things are kept back, …

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 conference was an optimistic attempt to bring together librarians, archivists, media scholars, and educators, to consider the implications of new cultural technologies for all our fields, including the possibilities of …

[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 at University College, London, and on this occasion he wanted the conference to examine some aspect of American film history. Did I want to be involved in the planning, and …

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 along and turned the whole thing upside down. When the dust settled, Wellington had become Wellywood, and for a while Aotearoa New Zealand had become Middle-earth. There also used to …

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 – books, articles, reports, conferences, archival work, DVD reissues or commentaries, documentaries, online material, software – anything, not limited to any particular source, certainly not STP. We advised invitees that “…Screening …

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 a shock to me, because it really does feel like it all began just yesterday. However, that is simply a sign of my age! Of more general significance is the …

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 in traditionally non-media disciplines. The Arnoldian-derived assumption that film has nothing to do with knowledge, reasoning or analysis has long since passed (or should have), as scholars from all disciplines …

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 the cavalry. It is measured in days, then, with the conferral of the watch by the troop to mark his retirement, by hours and minutes. Brittles does not wish to …

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 thank you for your continuing support. Deborah Allison Richard Armstrong Jonathan Auerbach David Baker Belinda Barnet Neil Bather Greg Battye Keith Beattie Roger Bell Mervyn F. Bendle John Benson Chris …