Since the 1970s the argument for government subsidy to the local film industry has been made in terms of the opportunity it provides for Australians “to tell our own stories”. What isn’t clear in this aspirational statement is that, from the outset, these stories have been told almost exclusively in monotone.
I join ABC commentator Jon Faine on The Conversation Hour to speak with feminist activists Dr Helen Pankhurst and Renee Carr on December 1, 2015 Continue…
An article written with Ben Eltham and published in The Conversation on March 29, 2015. We use evidence of cultural consumption and production in Australia to refute claims claims made by Senator Brandis in his justification of severe Federal government budget cuts to the arts. Continue…
The Cinema and Audiences Research Project (CAARP) database is an online encyclopaedia of cinema-going in Australia and aims to promote research into, and a deeper appreciation of, the history of film exhibition and cinema going in Australia. CAARP holds information about film-related events, capturing where and when individual screenings took place and the relationship between film distribution, […]