Category Archive for: ‘Issue 28 – Australian Film Culture: Australian Research Council 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 and Deane Williams of Monash University, and Noel King from Macquarie University. This research project takes as its object of study the development of film studies in Australia, especially in …

Sam Rohdie interviewed by Deane Williams Sam Rohdie is currently Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Film at the University of Central Florida. He has held the Chair in Film Studies at The Queen’s University of Belfast and before that was Professor of Film Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has held academic posts in universities in England, Ghana, …

Bill Routt interviewed by Deane Williams [The opening question and most of the response to it were lost because of a technical hitch. However, we do know that the first question posed by Deane was “How did you get into film studies?” and that part of the answer by Bill was that he got into film studies through being involved with a …

Lesley Stern interviewed by Deane Williams PHOTO: BECKY COHEN Professor Lesley Stern is the author of The Scorsese Connection (1995) and The Smoking Book (1999), and co-editor of Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance (1999). Her work moves between a number of disciplinary locations, and spans both theory and production. Although her reputation was established in the fields of film theory and history, she is …

Richard J Thompson interviewed by Anna Dzenis and Raffaele Caputo Richard Thompson was Head of the Division of Cinema Studies at La Trobe University between 1980 and 1982, and then again between 1985 and 1995. From 1971 until his arrival in Australia in 1980, Thompson taught film at University of California Los Angeles [UCLA] and at the Riverside, San Diego and Santa Cruz campuses. …