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Author Barrett Hodsdon

Barrett Hodsdon

Barrett Hodsdon has a long history with local film culture, through research, teaching and writing, starting with University film societies in the 1960s. He has published a book on Australian film culture, Straight Roads and Crossed Lines (2001), and a book on the history of auteur criticism, The Elusive Auteur: The Question of Film Authorship Throughout the Age of Cinema (2017).

The Said and the Unsaid (Part I): Australian Film Theory & Criticism (3 vols.), ed. Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams

Barrett Hodsdon
October 2018
Book Reviews
The ambition and scope of this project, as indicated by its all-encompassing title, was clearly designed to cover the explosion in critical and conceptual writing on film in Australia when it had not existed at...

The Said and the Unsaid (Part II): Australian Film Theory & Criticism (3 vols.), ed. Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams

Barrett Hodsdon
September 2018
Book Reviews
Further Reflections and Omissions In line with my heading “Further Reflection and Omissions”, I want to briefly note and emphasise the problems of the repressed and exclusionary aspects of the AFT&C projec...

Why Albie Thoms? – A Singular Commitment and a Figure Displaced

Barrett Hodsdon
March 2013
Albie Thoms Dossier
The Memorial Event – Thoms’ Resurrection On 17 December 2012, a large group of people came together in Paddington Town Hall to celebrate Albie Thoms’ life, and to launch his book, a memoir called My Generati...

Beyond Fuller

Barrett Hodsdon
September 2009
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