Issue 4 – First Release – Screening the Past

Editorial

Post author:Ina Bertrand
Post published:December 5, 2014
Post category: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…

Benjamin, the televisual and the “fascistic subject”

Post author:Allen Meek
Post published:December 5, 2014
Post category:Issue 4 - First Release

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…

Innovation or audience: the choice for documentary? An examination of the Australian Documentary Fellowship Scheme, 1984 -1989

Post author:Peter Hughes
Post published:December 5, 2014
Post category:Issue 4 - First Release

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…

The Trouble with Television

Post author:William Uricchio
Post published:December 5, 2014
Post category:Issue 4 - First Release

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,…