Screening the Past - Issue 25 index

The Rose of Rhodesia 1918

The Rose of Rhodesia (1918) by Harold M. Shaw is one of the earliest remaining feature films shot in Africa. Issue #25 of Screening the Past offers the first critical assessment of the film that until recently was thought lost. Essays by specialists in an array of fields situate the film in the context of South African cinema history, silent film conventions, performance styles, popular literature, imperialism, and political struggle in Zimbabwe today. Guest-edited by Stephen Donovan and Vreni Hockenjos, and in collaboration with the Nederlands Filmmuseum, this special issue includes a streamed version of the restored print of The Rose of Rhodesia with new music by Matti Bye and Kristian Holmgren.

Call for Papers: Special Issue: Cinema/Photography

Die freudlose Gasse/The Joyless Street, G. W. Pabst, 1929. In Issue #5, Jan-Christopher Horak wrote about a newly restored version. It is now available on DVD from Edition Filmmuseum.

The ARC-ERA ranking of international scholarly journals rated Screening the Past A* (i.e., A+) in the Historical Studies Category, and also in the Film, Television and Digital Media category.

The next issue of Screening the Past—the last for 2009—will be a special issue, “Screening Early Europe”, arising from the “Medievalism in Contemporary Media” symposium held at the University of Wollongong, October, 2008.

Issue 25: ISSN 1328-9756

Founding Editor: Ina Bertrand

Editors: Anna Dzenis and Rick Thompson
Online Editor: Cerise Howard

Published with the support of La Trobe University
and the Cinema Studies Program in the
School of Communications, Arts and Critical Enquiry.