Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma OR “Memory of the world” (a lecture)
[1] In Memory of K.K. Mahajan [2] I would like to begin (as a good Australian citizen), with an anecdote I heard when I was at the Queensland Art Gallery for…
lIntersections
Mulberry Omelette Once upon a time there was a king who could call all the power and treasures of the earth his own, but who for all that was not…
Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson Interviewed
Manny Farber: February 20, 1917 – August 17, 2008 Manny Farber portrait by Fielding Dawson Manny Farber changed the way film was written and thought about. He demonstrated new ways…
Introduction to Australian Film Theory and Criticism Project Interviews
The interviews to be published on a regular basis across this and future issues of Screening the Past derive from an ARC-funded project, entitled Australian Film Theory and Criticism, undertaken by Constantine Verevis…
Against the Flow of Time: Michael Mann and Edward Hopper
Tim Groves and Costas Thrasyvoulou Introduction Richard Combs claims that Michael Mann’s films have an opaque or self-enclosed quality that frustrates interpretation.[1] One reason for such resistance is that Mann’s cinema is…
Say it with generic maps: Genre, identity and flowers in Michael Mann’s Collateral
Luis M. Garcia-Mainar Recent contributions to the study of genre have stressed the role of its internal laws, such as historical trends or industrial factors, in the formation and development…
The Carlton Ripple and the Australian Film Revival
Why, after a lapse of four decades, rake over the remnants of what are at best little more than footnotes to the film revival? The first and most obvious answer…