Volume 7, 2004

Oct 8, 2004 | Contents Page Only, Film, Older Media, Print Media, Volume 07

Editor, Diana Sandars This issue is a special edition consisting of a selection of papers presented at the “What Lies Beneath” postgraduate conference organized by the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics, Archaeology, University of Melbourne, November...

Helen on the Edge: the Movement of Liminal Women and its Consequences in Early Greek Myth – Aleks Michalewicz

Oct 8, 2004 | Volume 07

The title of this paper takes as its cue Blondell et al’s Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides, [1] which argues in its introduction that “[w]omen in tragedy often disrupt ‘normal’ life by their words and actions: they speak out boldly,...

Tracks in the Desert: the tremulous landscapes of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula and Fred Williams – Ryan Johnston

Oct 8, 2004 | Volume 07

  The earth alone subtends the edifice of human history and culture. – Edward S. Casey (2002, 269)   If landscape is not the most persistent theme in the history of Australian art, then it is certainly its most enduring form. [1]   Australian landscape...

From the Hollywood Musical to Music Video: The Grafting that Lies Beneath Contemporary Australian Musicals – Diana Sandars

Oct 8, 2004 | Volume 07

Australian film theorist, Stuart Cunningham noted in 1983, that through grafting onto a Hollywood musical tradition, we have ‘Australianised’ the Hollywood musical (239). Stuart Cunningham’s concept of the Australian musical as a grafted structure...

New Thresholds of Perception: Representations of Altered States in Early Cinema – Marie-Louise Hillcoat

Oct 8, 2004 | Volume 07

Introduction In his book Life to Those Shadows, Noel Burch argues that early cinema (prior to 1908)cannot be interpreted within an evolutionary approach to history in which the first decade of cinema comes to occupy a primitive, less developed stage in relation to...