Australian Film Theory and Criticism: Volume 2: Interviews by Noel King

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By Noel King

A three-volume venture tracing key serious positions, humans, and associations in Australian movie, Australian movie conception and feedback interrogates not just the origins of Australian movie conception but in addition its relationships to adjoining disciplines and associations. the second one quantity within the sequence, this ebook gathers interviews with nationwide and overseas movie theorists and critics to chart the advance of other discourses in Australian movie reviews throughout the a long time. trying to study the placement of movie theorists and their dating to movie practitioners and coverage makers, this quantity succeeds mightily in reasserting Australian film’s position at the foreign scholarly agenda.


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I was there about nine months and I got to know various people in Adelaide. I had a great time and destroyed three cars, mostly through 20 “From ‘pictures’ to formats” NK: AM: NK: AM: carelessness. Sturt had promised an assistant lecturer’s job. When I got there from Sydney, the college claimed that the goalposts had been changed so far as the job designation was concerned. After nine months, I decided to start pushing them about it. However, it looked as though it was going to be an uphill battle.

This happened in 1971. We were invited to do such a course by the Department of Fine Arts but we could not agree on how to go about it. It was going to be only one-third of the fine arts course. The existing staff were interested; Donald Brook who taught sculpture was flexible and he was interested in the possibility of having film study in the new Fine Arts department. Bernard Smith the professor was not very keen on the idea but went along with it. David Malouf was part of the discussion about what we would do.

I find that material exemplary in its own kind of way. I’m old enough now to start thinking that there are various authors that one read as an undergraduate that need to be revisited for the clarity of their thinking and the elegance of their writing. ” It is irrespective of what they’re writing about. And Tony May is very good at giving me little pieces to read. He gave me an essay by Lukacs about the essay as a form, yesterday, so I find those kinds of things very nurturing. On the other hand, I never got that much from Colin MacCabe or Stephen Heath.

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