Modernity and the Film Exhibition Industry in Gippsland: The Glover Family Business 1926-1973 Anne Helen Wilson November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers 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 Australia depended on film exhi...
From Colonial Film Commissioner to Political Pariah: Joris Ivens and the Making of Indonesia Calling Drew Cottle and Angela Keys November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers 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 (1946), a film which was anathema to Du...
“The Illusion of Magnitude”: Adapting the Epic from Film to Television Djoymi Baker November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers 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 “a new epoch in the history of the motion picture as a facto...
Rethinking Transnational Cinema: The Case of Tamil Cinema Vijay Devadas November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers 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, there has “not surprisingly much conceptual muddl...
“Caught Between Poetry and Censorship”: The Influence of State Regulation and Sufi Poeticism on Contemporary Iranian Cinema Rosa Holman November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers 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. Recent scholarship has ten...
Quasi-Documentary, Cellflix and Web Spoofs: Chinese Movies’ Other Visual Pleasures Paola Voci November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers 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 works that one can view outside movie theatres g...
Re-designing the Past Imperfect: The Making of Hunt Angels Alec Morgan November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers 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 newsreel footage, comic books and, increasingly, from...
Pretending to be Himself: Graham Kennedy, Television, Film and Authenticity Susan Bye November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers 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, as perhaps do all such mythologies, a significant process of ...
Eisenstein and his Method: Recent Publications in Russia Julia Vassilieva November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers A self diminished to its part becomes a monster. - Marina Tsvetaeva, 1932 In 1998, the world celebrated the centenary of Sergei M. Eisenstein, famous Russian film director and one of the most radical theore...
