Category Archive for: ‘Issue 28 – Classics & Re-runs’

[1] This essay was originally published in Art & Text no. 7, Spring 1982, and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. In 1932, more than 20 years after the first futurist manifesto, Marinetti wrote (more precisely, compiled for the book appears as a memorial, a documentation, a factual report of quotes, of statements, of actions, testaments, manifestoes by Marinetti and by …

This article was originally published in Australian Journal of Screen Theory nos. 5-6, 1979; and reprinted in An Australian Film Reader, edited by Albert Moran and Tom O’Regan, Currency Press, 1985. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. In recent years there has been a burgeoning of independent women’s films made in Australia – usually short, inexpensively produced, often made collectively and …

The following article is not exactly a Classic or Re-Run; it is a chapter from Bill Routt’s PhD thesis and was selected by Bill for inclusion here. Popular art, which is as often highly individualized as it is not, is certainly art in which “lived reality” plays an important role. Those whose ideas we have just been considering have used …

This article was originally published in Film Comment vol. 16 no. 4, July-August 1980, and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. [This is the first piece of criticism I wrote in Australia. Hardly a contribution to Australian film culture, it was an effort to address a body of film which had caught my attention but was not much discussed in the …