A Brief History of Metro

Sydney and the Small Screen

Film à la Mode: Juxtaposing East and West in Yellow Is Forbidden

Home on the Rocks: Blue Lucine on Displacement and The Eviction

Age of Acceptance: Community and Inclusion in Sue Thomson’s The Coming Back Out Ball Movie

Rhetoric and Reminiscence: Graham Freudenberg, Political Memory and The Scribe

Other Voices: Grace, Who Waits Alone and New Australian Underground Cinema

Warwick Thornton and Kath Shelper on Making Samson and Delilah

Cinema Science: Using the Force of Star Wars

The Script Problem in Australian Films & Television

Hard Pill to Swallow: Vitamania and the Science Behind Supplements

Heading for Deep Water: Interrogating Detention in Gabrielle Brady’s Island of the Hungry Ghosts

Howls from the Underground: Persecution, Protest Music and Travis Beard’s RocKabul

Stirring Up Spectres: Ben Lawrence’s Ghosthunter and the Documentarian’s Duty of Care

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

Introduction

Editor’s Note

Glacial Contemplations: The Meditative Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Echoes of Tradition: Paul Williams’ Elegy for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Mirth and Malady: Homecoming Queens and Depicting Chronic Illness

Breaking the Waves: Defeating Discrimination in Christopher Nelius’ Girls Can’t Surf

Romper Stomper

Painting a Motion Picture: An interview with Shaun Tan

Film Appreciation – A New Approach

The Home Song Stories: Making It Real

You and Me Against the World: Revisiting Puberty Blues

Turning the Lens: Looking and Reliving in Hong Sang-soo’s Claire’s Camera

Against the Grain: The Documentary Sensibility of Sue Brooks’ Fiction Filmmaking

The Good, the Bad and The Proposition

Lovesick: Bill Mousoulis and the ‘Outside World’

Untrustworthy Images, Disguised Fictions: Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenet

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

The Picture Show Man

Everyday Longing: City Life in Winter of Our Dreams and Lonely Hearts

On Our Selection

Down and Out for Down Under: Critiquing Race Representation in Abe Forsythe’s Satire

Witness Born: Joe Cinque’s Consolation, Adaptation and Embodied Film Theory

Welcoming Intercourse: Luke Warm Sex and the Importance of Sexual Discourse

Tale of a Luminary: The Shine Campaign

Journey into Darkness: Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant on Nitram