Australian Film Theory and Criticism: v.2: Interviews

A three-volume project tracing key critical positions, people, and institutions in Australian film, Australian Film Theory and Criticism interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but also its relationships to adjacent disciplines and institutions. The second volume in the series, this book gathers interviews with national and international film theorists and critics to chart the development of different discourses in Australian film studies through the decades. Seeking to examine the position of film theorists and their relationship to film industry practitioners and policy makers, this volume succeeds mightily in reasserting Australian film’s place on the international scholarly agenda.

Deane Williams is associate professor of film and screen studies at Monash University, Melbourne. He is the author of Australian Post-War Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors, Michael Winterbottom (with Brian McFarlane), the three-volume Australian Film Theory and Criticism (co-edited with Noel King and Constantine Verevis), The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place, and Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology (with Julia Vassilieva).


Noel King is an independent scholar.