Metro Australia — January 2018

(WallPaper) #1

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Bad Blood and Bitterness:


Colonisation and the


Western in Warwick


Thornton’s Sweet Country


NICHOLAS GODFREY


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What Will You Do


with Your OtherLife?:


Sci-fi, Subjectivity and


Technology MEL CAMPBELL


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Outback Outbreak:


Yolanda Ramke and


Ben Howling on Cargo


and the Zombie Film


BRIONY KIDD


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Blood Feuds and


Bloodlands: Steven


Kastrissios’ Albanian


Horror-Fantasy


ALEXANDRA HELLER-NICHOLAS


28


Boys Will Be Boys: Horror


Tropes and Male Privilege


in Chris Peckover’s Better


Watch Out KATE ROBERTSON


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Seeing Double: Cinematic


Twins in Rabbit and That’s


Not Me GABRIELLE O’BRIEN


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Sci-fi on a Shoestring:
Ché Baker and Sarah
Mason on Blue World
Order OLIVER PFEIFFER

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Into the Light: Alex
Proyas’ Dark City Tw o
Decades On JOHN CATANIA

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Lost in the Woods:
Greg McLean’s Jungle
GLENN DUNKS

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Swapping Goats for
Snakes: Australian Survivor,
Narrative Complexity and
Audience Expectations
STUART RICHARDS

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Scars of Empathy:
The ABC’s Pulse and the
Medical Drama KYLIE MASLEN

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Making Peace: Resignation,
the Road Movie and Kirsten
Ta n’s Pop Aye DAVID CREWE

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Inside and Out: Afghan
Life in Shahrbanoo
Sadat’s Wolf and Sheep
SARAH WARD

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Flight of Fancy: Falconry,
Affluence and Yuri
Ancarani’s The Challenge
ANTHONY CAREW

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Songlines on Screen:
Naina Sen’s The Song
Keepers and Aboriginal
Histories FELICITY FORD

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A Story of Man and
Country: Sera Davies’
Namatjira Project
THOMAS REDWOOD

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Ghost House: Rewriting
the ‘Haunted’ Narrative
in Florian Habicht’s
Spookers STEPHEN A RUSSELL

98
Life Laid Bare: Sascha
Ettinger Epstein’s
The Pink House and
the Sex Industry
LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS

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Band Apart: Music,
Memory and Kriv Stenders’
The Go-Betweens: Right Here
JASMINE CRITTENDEN

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The Picture Show Man
ADRIAN DANKS

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The Streaming Arms
Race: Original VOD
Programming in Australia
CAMERON WILLIAMS

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Picture Partnership:
Co-productions
and the Australian
Screen Industries
TIM BOSANQUET

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Scope: Screen Industry
Views ROCHELLE SIEMIENOWICZ,
TARA JUDAH, LIZ GIUFFRE AND
DAN GOLDING

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