Issue 46 – First Release

Introduction Reenactment as a mode of inquiry about the past and as a broader cultural form in cinema, theater and television has become prevalent across the world. For example, reenactments…

“When a character moves off the screen, we accept the fact that he is out of sight, but continues to exist in his own capacity at some other place in…

Introduction The majority of audiences in North America and Europe, broadly categorised as ‘Western’, are accustomed to tightly controlled episodic structures, culturally engrained storytelling conventions, and deep-rooted expectations of a…

Heuretic: 1: (logic) The branch of logic concerned with discovery or invention The notion of photogénie, as articulated by French filmmaker and philosopher Jean Epstein, is a quasi-mystical quality of…

“Rien n’aura eu lieu que le lieu” (Nothing will have taken place but the place) - Stéphane Mallarmé, cited in Paris nous appartient (Jacques Rivette, 1961) Many of the themes…

I am convinced that the contemporary 15 minutes of fame is 15 minutes of hate. 15 minutes of death threats. Even more ephemeral due to the incitement by keyboard warriors.…

In February 1927, Paramount studios produced the romantic comedy It as a star vehicle for feature player Clara Bow, whose reputation was soaring based on her flapper characters in several…

Cultural Sensitivity Warning This article includes images and references to Aboriginal people who are now deceased and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Some words, descriptions and images included…

In her book on The Back of Beyond (1954), Sylvia Lawson describes John Heyer’s Shell Film Unit production as “a key moment in Australian film history in general, not just…

Two remarkable moments in Max Ophüls’ Le plaisir (1952), both “La maison Tellier,” second of the film’s three movements. We have already been introduced to the eccentric, charming, late nineteenth-century…

Preface: Adrian Slattery died from cancer on 14 May 2016, at the age of 30. He wrote and submitted the following text as an Honours dissertation in Film & Screen…

Introduction: Screening the Past continues its tribute to the legacy of Tom O’Regan (1956-2020) by publishing, for the first time, this essay co-authored by Huw Walmsley-Evans (also of University of…

Introduction: The following, extraordinary essay is the extant material for a 2018 lecture prepared by Tom O’Regan (1956-2020), to whom Lisa Bode paid moving tribute in our previous issue (http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-45-tom-oregan/vale-tom-oregan/).…

No film director, local or foreign, can claim such an impact on the politics and the arts in Australia now as the poet, communist and homosexual, Pier Paolo Pasolini, dead…

And lightning blinded all, however strong —Hesiod, Theogony, trans. Dorothea Wender When evil comes, it comes at an angle: this is the sense evoked by Charlotte Dacre in Zofloya (1806).…