Category Archive for: ‘Issue 4 – First Release’

Screening the Past is a year old. The editorial team gathered together recently to consider what had been achieved in that year, and where we want to go in future. A number of changes to the site are planned, and one of these is to publish an Editorial in each issue. Personally, the Editorial is the part of any publication that …

Uploaded 15 September 1998 The 1936 Berlin Olympics, as well as providing the sets for Leni Riefenstahl’s masterpiece of Nazi propaganda Olympia, served as the site of the first “live” television broadcast. Among the crowds attending this global sports event, that simultaneously appeared on screens in several reception halls in Berlin, was the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who had only the …

Uploaded 15 Septmber 1998 Background to the Scheme Film and (later) television production have been important sites for debates about the “Australian experience” for one hundred years. That period has seen regular attempts by governments, and their cultural agencies, to intervene in the developing industries of cultural production, of which the Documentary Fellowship Scheme was a particularly interesting example. While …

Uploaded 15 September 1998 The trouble with television Ubiquity. Fleeting images radiate from unexpected corners in airport lounges and duty-free shops; they accompany our daily transitions from work to relaxation, and from relaxation to sleep; and they synchronize disparate fields of our experience with the rhythms of transmitted joys, sorrows, and news. Whether lambasted or praised, studied or ignored, television’s …