Author Neil McDonald

Neil McDonald

Neil McDonald founded the first film courses at Mitchell College of Advanced Education, later Charles Sturt University, in 1970. He is the author of Damien Parer’s War, recently filmed as Parer’s War, Chester Wilmot Reports: Broadcasts That Shaped World War II, and co-author with Peter Brune of 200 Shots: Damien Parer and George Silk With the Australians at War in New Guinea. He is Contributing Film Editor for Quadrant Magazine and is an honorary ACS.

John Flaus: A Tribute

Neil McDonald

October 2014

John Flaus Dossier

In the early 1970s when academic film study was beginning, most of us would wait for what John Flaus was going to come up with next. Those of us professionally teaching film were a very small community. Very fe...