Category Archive for: ‘Issue 42 – The Future of Film Studies in the age of Media’

When we (with Noel King) put together our ARC-funded project Australian Film Theory and Criticism (1975–1985) to document the development of film studies in Australia, we were also thinking about how events of that period informed and shaped the current state of film studies in Australia (and elsewhere). Now, with the discipline of media studies ascendant, and digital media formats …

As we know, the discipline of film studies in many institutions in Australia is closely tied to or subsumed within media studies programs. For this reason, I would like to contribute to today’s discussion by considering current transformations in media studies pedagogy, and the implications of these changes for our discipline. I want to start from what Graeme Turner identifies …

I am flattered to participate in this event with a panel of energetic film scholars, all still teaching and publishing in their respective, tertiary education systems. This October 2016 will mark four years since I taught in any university context, so please regard my contribution as coming to some extent from outside the institution of film-media studies as it is …

When I first looked at the title for the symposium, my immediate reaction was: there’s a word missing! The title should be: “The Future of Film Studies in the Age of Media Studies Degrees”. This is to say, my view of the topic is very much shaped by a particular institutional context – one in which the majority of students …

One of the perceived challenges facing film studies today concerns the transfer of film as our object of study into the digital domain. The materiality of film as celluloid is transforming at an exponential rate from the photochemical/analogue medium that it was for approximately the first century of its existence to the digital/coding format that dominates today. Chuck Tryon explains: …

I want to thank you for including me in the inspiring and energetic life of film studies here in Australia. In my public talk for Monash (11 August 2016), I noted how, when I came to Australia now three decades ago, I was struck most by the intensity of engagement with cinema culture (and theory more generally). As an outsider, …