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Before Priscilla: Male-to-Female Transgender in Australian Cinema until the 1990s – Joanna McIntyre

May 6, 2011 | Film, Volume 18

‘Film capitalizes on our most primary means of communication, employing visual images that move us deeply… Each decade’s cultural anxiety and hope about gender is coded frame by frame in the celluloid representations of gender nonconformists’ (Mackenzie 1999, 206-7)....

From Night and Day to De-Lovely: Cinematic Representations of Cole Porter – Penny Spirou

May 6, 2011 | Film, Sound, Volume 18

Cole Porter (1891 – 1964) is a composer and popular songwriter with two musical biopics that explore his life story: Night and Day (Michael Curtiz, 1946) and De-Lovely (Irwin Winkler, 2004). Due to their time of release and production the films offer different...

(Em)Placing Prison Break: Heterotopic Televisual Space and Place – Angie Knaggs

May 6, 2011 | Television, Volume 18

Your inside is out, And your outside is in Your outside is in, And your inside is out (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) Introduction Screen geography is a growing trans-disciplinary field that focuses on mapping the cinematic terrain. The ‘spatial turn’ in cultural...

“Think Smart”: multiple casting, critical engagement and the contemporary film spectator – Nicole Choolun

May 6, 2011 | Film, Volume 18

To acknowledge that the avant-garde has evolved and changed, has adapted to the realities of our time, is to acknowledge as well that the world has moved on, that technology has evolved, that audiences now have different eyes, different expectations, and that the...
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