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Author Matthew Campora

Matthew Campora

Matthew Campora is a lecturer at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. He is currently writing a book on subjective realist cinema as well as researching film and television productions on Peak Oil.

Disrespectful Indigenisation: The Films of Robert Connolly

Matthew Campora
December 2013
Contemporary Australian Filmmakers
In this article, I will examine the work of contemporary Australian filmmaker Robert Connolly (b. 1967), a director who could be considered amongst the most successful contemporary filmmakers working in Austral...

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema by Allan Cameron

Matthew Campora
July 2010
Book Reviews
One of the more interesting developments in the cinema of the past 15 years or so has been the surge of mainstream films with complex narratives. Consider Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), Eternal Sunshin...

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