Film & History Conference Papers
Modernity and the Film Exhibition Industry in Gippsland: The Glover Family Business 1926-1973
Marshall Berman claims that modernity “pours us all into a maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal” (1). This article contends that successful exhibition in country
From Colonial Film Commissioner to Political Pariah: Joris Ivens and the Making of Indonesia Calling
Appointed Film Commissioner of The Netherlands East Indies on 28 September 1944, in September and October of the following year Joris Ivens directed Indonesia Calling
“The Illusion of Magnitude”: Adapting the Epic from Film to Television
When Giuseppe de Liguoro’s Homer’s Odyssey (1910) was released in the U.S. in 1912, a review in The Moving Picture World praised it for beginning
Rethinking Transnational Cinema: The Case of Tamil Cinema
In a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, Steven Vertovec suggests that, while there have been a variety of uptakes on transnationalism,
“Caught Between Poetry and Censorship”: The Influence of State Regulation and Sufi Poeticism on Contemporary Iranian Cinema
Since the early 1990s, contemporary Iranian cinema, with its culture of auteurism and poetic consciousness, has continued to inspire lively critical discourse and popular acclaim.
Quasi-Documentary, Cellflix and Web Spoofs: Chinese Movies’ Other Visual Pleasures
In China, as elsewhere, new locations and new media have redefined the experience of watching a moving image, beyond the cinematic experience. (1) The visual
Re-designing the Past Imperfect: The Making of Hunt Angels
Our visions of history are drawn from diverse sources: not just from the narratives of history books but also from photographs and historical novels, from
Pretending to be Himself: Graham Kennedy, Television, Film and Authenticity
It could be argued that Graham Kennedy was the star that Australian television just had to have. The mythology built up around him has required,
Eisenstein and his Method: Recent Publications in Russia
A self diminished to its part becomes a monster. - Marina Tsvetaeva, 1932 In 1998, the world celebrated the centenary of Sergei M. Eisenstein, famous