Welcome to Issue 31 of our journal! the editors April 2004 Editorial Issue 31 For this issue, we considered launching a wide-ranging investigation into the current state of Australian film culture. Then we realised this would bore everyone to tears. The decline of public broadcasting,...
Welcome to Issue 30 of our journal! the editors February 2004 Editorial Issue 30 As in previous years, our first issue for 2004 leads off with a collection of lists of the best films of the last 12 months, by a wide range of cinephiles and critics. We're honoured by the unprecedented...
Welcome to Issue 29 of our journal! the editors December 2003 Editorial Issue 29 In recent weeks, members of the Australian film and television industry have been up in arms at the possibility of Australia's cultural industry being undermined by current free trade agreements with the...
Welcome to Issue 28 of our journal! the editors October 2003 Editorial Issue 28 A number of articles here approach the outer limits of cinema: cinema outside the space of the movie theatre; cinema where the focus is no longer on the screen (Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone );...
Welcome to Issue 27 of our journal! the editors July 2003 Editorial Issue 27 Recent months have been marked by two well-publicised controversies around the issue of freedom of speech in Australia. Firstly, there was the appalling decision by the Board of Review and the Office of...
Welcome to Issue 26 of our journal! the editors May 2003 Editorial Issue 26 By chance more than design, this issue has a sombre cast to it. Some of the films discussed here explore contemporary scenarios of social alienation and sexual abjection; others touch on the...
Welcome to Issue 25 of our journal! the editors March 2003 Editorial Issue 25 But first of all he looked for the woman's face, at the end of the jetty. He ran toward her. And when he recognized the man who had trailed him since the underground camp, he understood there was no way to...
Welcome to Issue 24 of our journal! the editors January 2003 Editorial Issue 24 A significant section of this issue is devoted to the year just passed. It's more then a little difficult, and somewhat misleading, to attempt a summary or generalisation about a year in film especially...
Welcome to Issue 23 of our journal! the editors December 2002 Editorial Issue 23 In a recent French documentary profiling female directors, Women Behind the Camera (Jean-Marie Nizan, 2001), Agnès Varda observes, “Little by little, by studying or with a bit of cheek, women have...
Welcome to Issue 22 of our journal! the editors October 2002 Editorial Issue 22 There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man. - Alice Guy-Blaché, 1913 As editors of the Special Women's Issue of Senses of Cinema, we could not...
Welcome to Issue 21 of our journal! the editors July 2002 Editorial Issue 21 Senses of Cinema is growing and changing. Our philosophy of cinema remains the same: to stay outside the mainstream system of distribution and promotion that rules public film culture, and to champion what...
Welcome to Issue 20 of our journal! the editors May 2002 Editorial Issue 20 Issue 20 Parts of this article are now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia and Partners. Several key threads make their way through this issue: the theme of nation and identity; of...