Category Archive for: ‘Issue 9 – First Release’

Uploaded 1 March 2000 Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini’s Giovanna d’Arco One would expect godless and nihilistic attitudes to be at antipodes with those of a very Catholic miracle play. In fact, this is not the case.  Giovanna d’Arco al rogo (“Joan of Arc at the stake,” 1955), Roberto Rossellini’s mise en scène of an oratorio by Arthur Honegger and Paul …

[1] Uploaded 1 March 2000   Figure 1: Animated loop from video: Hegel’s grave in Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof The Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof A VIP cemetery in East Berlin. In a quiet section, a group of luminaries lie at rest, though in life, had they all lived at the same time, there would have been no peace between them: the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, …

Uploaded 1 March 2000 Introductory paragraph In 1994 Australia’s Celluloid Closet burst into quite unexpected, and spectacularly colourful, flames (as old nitrate film stock is liable to do). With a cinematic flourish, the firm and sensible homosociality underlying Sunday too Far Away (Hannam, 1977), We of the Never Never (Auzin, 1982), and even (in a different key) Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975) was replaced with …

Uploaded 1 March 2000|Updated 15 March 2000 | Scholars seeking to understand the emergence of cultural memories and their functions have begun attending to the complex processes of public memory and particularly to “the rhetorical processes through which public memory makes its claim on cultural knowledge.” [1] Initially, public memory can be thought of as rhetorical in at least three …

[1] Uploaded 1 March 2000 Long shadows on county [cricket] grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and [football] pools fillers…old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist. (Former Conservative Prime Minister John Major’s vision of Britain.) [2] You [the British] take a delicious oriental infusion – and dump cow juice in it. You invent a game …

Sidestepping questions of whether or not it marked the beginning of a new millennium, let alone a new century, the beginning of a new year has come and gone. As the smoke clears from the new year’s eve fireworks, contemporary millennial technophobia has had to find new objects of fear and loathing, and we at Screening the pastheave a sigh of …