Australian Film Theory and Criticism

Deane Williams is the Head of Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. He has published widely on realist film including Australian film history and documentary film history. He is the editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film and author of Mapping the Imaginary: Ross Gibson's Camera Natura and in 2008 his (and Brian McFarlane's) Michael Winterbottom was published by Manchester University Press.Constantine Verevis is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. He is the author of Film Remakes (Edinburgh UP, 2006), and co-editor of Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel (SUNY P, 2010).Noel King teaches Film and Literary-cultural Criticism in the Department of Media, Music, Communication, and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. His current research concerns the literature–film relationship of two US writers, poet Richard Hugo and novelist Don DeLillo.

• Preface – Patrice PetroIntroductionChapter 1: Australian Film Theory and Criticism  – Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane WilliamsPART I: InstitutionsChapter 2: Film Theory Goes to Australia – Constantine VerevisChapter 3: Writing the Australian Film Revival – Constantine VerevisPART II: PersonnelChapter 4: Cultural Mobility and Film Studies in Australia 1975-1990 – Noel KingPART III: CriticismChapter 5: Shifts and Interventions: Cultural Materialism and Australian Film History – Deane WilliamsChapter 6: Australian Film Theory and Criticism and Cultural Studies – Deane WilliamsConclusionChapter 7: Contemporary Australian Film Theory and Criticism – Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane WilliamsAppendix 1: Australian Journal of Screen Theory (AJST), 1976–1985Appendix 2: Australian Film Theory and Criticism: The Interviews