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Issue 7  - Uploaded 1 July 1999 - [Current issue]   [Archive]

Editorial

First release

Theory into practice: Stanley Hawes and the Commonwealth Film Unit, by Ina Bertrand. Abstract. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)Click here to view a quicktime video clip of The Queen in Australia.

A national, historical perspective on documentary in Denmark, by Rasmus Dahl. Abstract. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

McLaren and Grierson: intersections, by Terence Dobson. (Uploaded 12 November 1999) (Held over until issue 8)

Soho Square and Bennett Park: the documentary movement in Britain in the 1930s, by John Gray. Abstract. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

John Grierson and the public relations industry in Britain, by Jacqui L'Etang. Abstract. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Pôru Rûta/Paul Rotha and the politics of translation, by Abe Mark Nornes(Uploaded 1 July 1999)

John Grierson in South Africa: Afrikaaner nationalism and the National Film Board by Keyan G Tomaselli & Edwin Hees. Abstract. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Between empire and nation: Grierson in Australia, by Deane Williams. Abstract. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Classics

Final draft report [South Africa] by John Grierson. (Uploaded 1 July 1999) A .pdf version is available for readers who want a more accurate simulation of the original report.

Copy of Memorandum from Mr. John Grierson. Memorandum to the Prime Minister.[Australia] (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Short Subjects

Reviews

Felicity Collins reviews Cari Beauchamp, Without lying down. Frances Marion and the powerful women of early Hollywood.(Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Blair Davis and Paul Heyer review Michael Anderegg, Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and popular culture. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Helen Grace reviews Mikhail Iampolski, The memory of Tiresias: intertextuality and film. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

John Frow reviews Andrew Horton & Stuart Y.McDougal (editors), Play it again, Sam: retakes on remakes. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Peter Hughes reviews John Corner, The art of record : a critical introduction to documentary, Derek Paget, No other way to tell it: dramadoc/docudrama on television and William Rothman, Documentary film classics. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Bill Krohn reviews Camille Paglia, The birds and Evan Hunter, Me and Hitch. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Arthur Lindley reviews Robin Wood, Sexual politics and narrative film: Hollywood and beyond. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Harriet Margolis reviews David Lascelles, 80 turbulent years: the Paramount theatre Wellington 1917-1997 and Celluloid dreams: a century of film in New Zealand. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Michael Paris reviews Tony Barta (editor), Screening the past: film and the representation of history (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Terrie Waddell reviews Linda S. Kauffman, Bad girls and sick boys: fantasies in contemporary art and culture . (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Peter B. White reviews Tom Standage, The Victorian internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers. (Uploaded 1 July 1999)

Trailers: including forthcoming events, calls for papers for conferences and journals, notices and new titles.

Issue 6  - Uploaded 1 July 1999 - [Current issue]   [Archive]

Special issue: AHR revisited

Guest Editors: Arthur Lindley and Anthony Guneratne

Editorial

AHR forum :

Historiography and historiophoty, by Hayden White. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

History in images/history in words: reflections on the possibility of really putting history onto film, by Robert A. Rosenstone. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Endgame?, by Pierre Sorlin. Abstract . (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

"One train may be hiding another": private history, memory and national identity, by Thomas Elsaesser. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

The insistent fringe: moving images and the palimpsest of historical consciousness, by Vivian Sobchack. Abstract. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Conflagration and contagion: eventilization and narrative structure, by Roberta Pearson. Abstract. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

History on trial: the case of Porzus, by Marcia Landy. Abstract. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Prosthetic memory/ traumatic memory: Forrest Gump (1994), by Robert Burgoyne. Abstract. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Ancient Rome and the traditions of film history, by Maria Wyke. Abstract. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Reflections on Reflections on history in images/history in words, by Robert A. Rosenstone. Abstract. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Classics

Cinema and identification and Cinema and transference, by Jean Deprun. Translated by Annabelle J. de Croÿ. Introduction, by Harriet Margolis (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Reruns

Pusan international film festival :

The beginnings and development of early Asian film (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Early Asian cinema: close encounters with Asia's past (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

China and Hong Kong movies in retrospect, by Stanley Kwan. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

In the age of silence - beginnings of cinema in India, by P.K. Nair. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

An introduction to early Japanese cinema, by Sato Tadao. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

The establishment of a national cinema under colonialism: the history of early Korean cinema, by Lee Young-Il. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Short Subjects

Reviews

Ina Bertrand reviews Colin Harding & Simon Popple, In the kingdom of shadows: a companion to early cinema. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Sandra Idrovo Carlier reviews Paulo Antonio Paranagu (ed): Mexican cinema .(Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Jeanette Delamoir reviews Stella Bruzzi Undressing cinema: clothing and identity in the movies and Pam Cook Fashioning the nation: costume and identity in British cinema.(Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Richard Maltby reviews James Naremore: More than night: film noir in its contexts (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Harriet Margolis reviews Edward Baron Turk: Hollywood Diva: a biography of Jeanette MacDonald. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Geoff Mayer reviews Robert Murphy (ed): The British cinema book. (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Stephen Vaughn reviews Henry A.Giroux: Channel surfing: race talk and the destruction of today's youth.(Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Sue Turnbull reviews Valerie Walkerdine: Daddy's girl: young girls and popular culture.(Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Mark J. P. Wolf reviews Robin Nelson: TV drama in transition.(Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Freda Freiberg , Life is beautiful (1998): an appreciation (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Jan-Christopher Horak reviews Stephan Oettermann: The panorama: history of a mass medium.(Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Reports

Keyan G. Tomaselli reports on Breaking the Boundaries -- the Stirling Documentary Conference: an international conference on documentary (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Mark Juddery reports on Saving Giliw Ko (Uploaded 16 April 1999)

Trailers: including forthcoming events, calls for papers for conferences and journals, notices and new titles.

Issue 5  - Uploaded 15 December 1998 - [Current issue]   [Archive]

Editorial

First release

Woman as spectacle in Zhang Yimou's "Theatre of punishments", by Jeannette Delamoir. Abstract (Uploaded 18 December 1998)

Film history and film preservation: reconstructing the text of The joyless street (1925) by Jan-Christopher Horak. Abstract (Uploaded 18 December 1998)

Composing the past: music and the sense of history in Hollywood spectacles of the 1950s and early 1960s, by Hannu Salmi. Abstract (Uploaded 18 December 1998)

A spring river flows east: "progressive" ideology and gender representation, by Bret Sutcliffe. Abstract (Uploaded 18 December 1998)

Reruns

Recovering the past: rare films screened in Korea, by Professor Cho Hee-Moon. Introduction by Chris Berry (Uploaded 18 December 1998)

Short subjects

Peta Carlin reviews Francois Penz & Maureen Thomas (eds): Cinema and architecture: Melies, Mallet-stevens, multimedia (Uploaded 21 December 1998)

Adrian Martin reviews Darren Tofts & Murray McKeich: Memory trade: a prehistory of cyberculture (Uploaded 18 December 1998)

David Sanjek reviews Rebecca Coyle (ed): Screen scores: studies in contemporary Australian film music. (Uploaded 18 December 1998)

Mike Walsh reviews Noël Carroll: Interpreting the moving image (Uploaded 18 December 1998)

Peter B. White reviews Jock Given: The death of broadcasting: media's digital future. (Uploaded 18 December 1998)

Trailers

Issue 4  - Uploaded 15 September 1998 - [Current issue]   [Archive]

Editorial

First release

Benjamin, the televisual and the "fascistic subject", by Allen Meek. Abstract (Uploaded 15 September 1998)

Innovation or audience: the choice for documentary?, by Peter Hughes. Abstract. (Uploaded 15 September 1998)

The trouble with television, by William Uricchio. Abstract. (Uploaded 15 September 1998)

Classics

Leon Moussinac "Cinema: social means of expression". Translated and introduced by Richard Abel. (Uploaded 15 September 1998)

Reruns

Geography, photography, the cinema: Les Archives de la Planète, by Sam Rhodie. Abstract. (Uploaded 15 September 1998)

Short subjects

Jeanette Delamoir reviews: Ronald Genini: Theda Bara: a biography of the silent screen vamp (Uploaded 15 September, 1998)

Bill Krohn reviews Adrian Martin : Once upon a time in America (Uploaded 15 September, 1998)

David Muir reviews Duncan Petrie: The British cinematographer. (Uploaded 15 Septmber 1998)

Adrian Martin reviews Guy Austin : Contemporary French cinema: an introduction . (Uploaded15 September 1998)

Sarah Street reviews Jeffrey Richards (ed) :The unknown thirties: an alternative history of the British cinema, 1929-1939 . (Uploaded15 September, 1998).

Stephanie Donald on the Chinese Taipei Film archive (Uploaded15 September, 1998).

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