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Issue No. 195

January 2018

Bad Blood and Bitterness: Colonisation and the Western in Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country

Words Nicholas Godfrey

Spotlight on Genre Film

What Will You Do with Your OtherLife?: Sci-fi, Subjectivity and Technology

Words Mel Campbell

Spotlight on Genre Film

Outback Outbreak: Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling on Cargo and the Zombie Film

Words Briony Kidd

Spotlight on Genre Film

Blood Feuds and Bloodlands: Steven Kastrissios’ Albanian Horror-Fantasy

Words Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Spotlight on Genre Film

Boys Will Be Boys: Horror Tropes and Male Privilege in Chris Peckover’s Better Watch Out

Words Kate Robertson

Spotlight on Genre Film

Seeing Double: Cinematic Twins in Rabbit and That’s Not Me

Words Gabrielle O'Brien

Spotlight on Genre Film

Sci-fi on a Shoestring: Ché Baker and Sarah Mason on Blue World Order

Words Oliver Pfeiffer

Spotlight on Genre Film

Into the Light: Alex Proyas’ Dark City Two Decades On

Words John Catania

Spotlight on Genre Film

Lost in the Woods: Greg McLean’s Jungle

Words Glenn Dunks

Spotlight on Genre Film

Swapping Goats for Snakes: Australian Survivor, Narrative Complexity and Audience Expectations

Words Stuart Richards

Beyond the Big Screen

Scars of Empathy: The ABC’s Pulse and the Medical Drama

Words Kylie Maslen

Beyond the Big Screen

Making Peace: Resignation, the Road Movie and Kirsten Tan’s Pop Aye

Words Dave Crewe

Focus on Asia and the Middle East

Inside and Out: Afghan Life in Shahrbanoo Sadat’s Wolf and Sheep

Words Sarah Ward

Focus on Asia and the Middle East

Flight of Fancy: Falconry, Affluence and Yuri Ancarani’s The Challenge

Words Anthony Carew

Focus on Asia and the Middle East

Songlines on Screen: Naina Sen’s The Song Keepers and Aboriginal Histories

Words Felicity Ford

Documentary

A Story of Man and Country: Sera Davies’ Namatjira Project

Words Thomas Redwood

Documentary

Ghost House: Rewriting the ‘Haunted’ Narrative in Florian Habicht’s Spookers

Words Stephen A Russell

Documentary

Life Laid Bare: Sascha Ettinger Epstein’s The Pink House and the Sex Industry

Words Lauren Carroll Harris

Documentary

Band Apart: Music, Memory and Kriv Stenders’ The Go-Betweens: Right Here

Words Jasmine Crittenden

Documentary

The Picture Show Man

Words Adrian Danks

The NFSA Restores Collection

The Streaming Arms Race: Original VOD Programming in Australia

Words Cameron Williams

Industry Perspectives

Picture Partnership: Co-productions and the Australian Screen Industries

Words Tim Bosanquet

Industry Perspectives

Critical Failure: The ABC’s Screen Time

Words Rochelle Siemienowicz

Scope: Screen Industry Views

Artistic Crisis: The 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival Critics Campus

Words Tara Judah

Scope: Screen Industry Views

The Return of Countdown: Remembering Australia’s Musical Diversity

Words Liz Giuffre

Scope: Screen Industry Views

Hitting the Right Targets

Words Dan Golding

Scope: Screen Industry Views

Contents

    Spotlight on Genre Film

  • Bad Blood and Bitterness: Colonisation and the Western in Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country
  • What Will You Do with Your OtherLife?: Sci-fi, Subjectivity and Technology
  • Outback Outbreak: Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling on Cargo and the Zombie Film
  • Blood Feuds and Bloodlands: Steven Kastrissios’ Albanian Horror-Fantasy
  • Boys Will Be Boys: Horror Tropes and Male Privilege in Chris Peckover’s Better Watch Out
  • Seeing Double: Cinematic Twins in Rabbit and That’s Not Me
  • Sci-fi on a Shoestring: Ché Baker and Sarah Mason on Blue World Order
  • Into the Light: Alex Proyas’ Dark City Two Decades On
  • Lost in the Woods: Greg McLean’s Jungle
  • Beyond the Big Screen

  • Swapping Goats for Snakes: Australian Survivor, Narrative Complexity and Audience Expectations
  • Scars of Empathy: The ABC’s Pulse and the Medical Drama
  • Focus on Asia and the Middle East

  • Making Peace: Resignation, the Road Movie and Kirsten Tan’s Pop Aye
  • Inside and Out: Afghan Life in Shahrbanoo Sadat’s Wolf and Sheep
  • Flight of Fancy: Falconry, Affluence and Yuri Ancarani’s The Challenge
  • Documentary

  • Songlines on Screen: Naina Sen’s The Song Keepers and Aboriginal Histories
  • A Story of Man and Country: Sera Davies’ Namatjira Project
  • Ghost House: Rewriting the ‘Haunted’ Narrative in Florian Habicht’s Spookers
  • Life Laid Bare: Sascha Ettinger Epstein’s The Pink House and the Sex Industry
  • Band Apart: Music, Memory and Kriv Stenders’ The Go-Betweens: Right Here
  • The NFSA Restores Collection

  • The Picture Show Man
  • Industry Perspectives

  • The Streaming Arms Race: Original VOD Programming in Australia
  • Picture Partnership: Co-productions and the Australian Screen Industries
  • Scope: Screen Industry Views

  • Critical Failure: The ABC’s Screen Time
  • Artistic Crisis: The 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival Critics Campus
  • The Return of Countdown: Remembering Australia’s Musical Diversity
  • Hitting the Right Targets

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