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Australian and New Zealand Cinema
6 Shortcuts Tina Kaufman
8 Making it Real: The Home Song Stories
Michael Kitson
12 To Love More: Clubland Director Cherie Nowlan
Rjurik Davidson
18 Going Walkabout: Lucky Miles
Dave Hoskin
22 A Road Movie Without a Road: An
Interview with Michael James Rowland
Brian McFarlane
30 This Boy's Life: Romulus, My Father Rjurik Davidson
34 Sex, Drugs and No Control: West Rani Kellock
38 Silence, Please: Dr Plonk Brian McFarlane
42 Some Takes on the Meaning of 'Noise': Noise
D. Bruno Starrs
48 Their Brothers' Keepers: Bra Boys Bruce Andrews
54 It All Begins at Home: Accelerating Local Film
Talent Lior Albeck-Ripka
58 In Danger of Great Film: The Tenth Revelation
Perth International Film Festival Darren Jorgensen
62 Vibrant and Varied: The Melbourne International
Animation Festival Elizabeth Markham
Focus on Asia and the Middle East
66 The Curse of the Golden Flower and the
Two Trends in Chinese Cinema Mike Walsh
72 Palestine Uncut: The Inaugural Melbourne–
Palestine Film Festival Dmetri Kakmi
The Atlab/Kodak Cinema Collection
76 Introduction Brian McFarlane
78 Newsfront Rose Lucas
Special Feature:
Awakening the Past
86 Taking the 'Nation' Out of Gallipoli: Tolga
Örnek's Gallipoli: The Frontline Catherine Simpson
92 Bonds of War: Tolga Örnek on Gallipoli: The
Frontline and Australian–Turkish Relations
Catherine Simpson
96 The Shape of Light – Australian
Cinematographers: Part One: Setting the
Scene; Russell Boyd Dave Hare
102 The Picture That Might Have Been:
The Story of the Kelly Gang Mike Walsh
Industry Perspectives
106 Filmonomics: An Introduction to the
Economics of the Box Office Jordi McKenzie
112 The Big Picture: Australian Box Office Wrap
Matthew Hancock
118 From the Big Screen to the Computer
Screen: australianscreen Goes Online
Tina Kaufman
126 Get Your Shorts Out Angela Zivkovic
129 Vale Richard Franklin Kevin Adams
130 A Pathway for Low Budget Filmmakers:
IndiVision Monique Hohnberg

Contributors for this issue (L-r): 1. bruCe andrews. 2. Lior aLbeCk-ripka. 3. Monique hohnberg. 4. rjurik davidson. 5. jordi MCkenzie 6. Mike waLsh.
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of South Australia • Jeanette DelaMoIR Senior
Lecturer, School of Contemporary Communication,
Central Queensland University • anna DzenIs
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Scholar • ROGeR HORROCKS Professor Emeritus,
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136 Your Typical Mini-Series: Bastard Boys
Rjurik Davidson
142 Our Digital Aunty – The ABC's New
Media Future: Part One: Now We Are Two:
ABC2 Marissa Cooke
Media
148 Performing History: The Circa Theatre at the
National Museum of Australia Kylie Message
152 Invasion of the iPod People: Music and
Radio Kate Matthews
158 Done by Law: Australia's New Media
Ownership Laws Cynthia Karena
162 Reading the Signs: An Interview with Andy
Carmichael Nicholas Searle
Critical Views
166 Two Westerns That Weren't?: The Tracker
and The Proposition D. Bruno Starrs
173 Translating Identities: The Italian as
'Other' in Two early American Films
Dennis Barone
178 Showing Some Fight: Kemira's Challenge to
Industrial Relations Rebecca Coyle and Lisa Milner
Regular Features
184 tv eye
190 idiot's box
198 wires up
202 book reviews
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