Independent, outspoken and often polemical, Metro features writing by some of the region's foremost academics and critics, providing readers with comprehensive coverage of Australian, New Zealand, Asian, and Pacific screen industries. Combining a wide range of topics and disciplines, Metro offers a unique blend of in-depth scholarship and popular writing, perfectly capturing key trends and developments in screen culture.
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‘The Stars Are All Strange ’ Here • CULTURAL MEMORY AND FORGETFULNESS IN RODERICK MACKAY’S THE FURNACE
Dry Fidelity • ROBERT CONNOLLY’S THE DRY AND BIG-SCREEN CRIME ADAPTATION
Bird’s-eye View • GLENDYN IVIN ON CHANCE AND NATURE IN PENGUIN BLOOM
Out of Break • TIMELY ISSUES AND OLD GENDER TROPES IN SETH LARNEY’S 2067
Shooting for the Stars • LUKE SPARKE’S OCCUPATION: RAINFALL AND THE ELUSIVE AUSTRALIAN BLOCKBUSTER
Rocky Road • RUNNING FROM RESPONSIBILITY IN KURT MARTIN’S MOON ROCK FOR MONDAY
A Light in the Dark • Nel Minchin on Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra
The View from the Shore • Healing Through Songline in Steven McGregor’s Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky
Hip-hop of a Different Hue • Cultural Appreciation and Identification in Oscar Kightley’s Dawn Raid
Australian Spirit • Love and Country Music in Kriv Stenders’ Slim & I
Climate of Resignation • Unquiet Adolescence in Kathy Drayton’s The Weather Diaries
Muted Suffering • MYOPIA AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN STATELESS
Confinement and Camaraderie • GIRLS BEHIND BARS IN STARLESS DREAMS AND SUNLESS SHADOWS
Artificial Rain • CONTROL, PRECISION AND REALITY IN ANTHONY CHEN’S WET SEASON
Cinema Science • Aerodynamic Instruction and Paper Planes
Breaking the Spell • Nostalgia and New Directions in Earwig and the Witch
Time of Transition • First Day and Being Seen on Screen
Frozen Hearts Coming of Age in Somersault • SHOWERED WITH AWARDS BUT AROUSING CONTROVERSY ON ITS RELEASE, CATE SHORTLAND’S DEBUT FEATURE REMAINS A SINGULAR DEPICTION OF ADOLESCENT FEMALE SEXUALITY, MAKING USE OF A DISTINCTIVE, IF ATYPICAL, AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE. SEPARATING THE FILM FROM CONTEMPORANEOUS CHARACTERISATIONS OF IT AS EPITOMISING PERCEIVED FAILINGS OF THE LOCAL MOVIE INDUSTRY, JARROD STURNIEKS ARGUES THAT IT REMAINS A SINGULAR AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE – IF STILL DIFFICULT-TO-CATEGORISE – CINEMATIC ACHIEVEMENT.
Outback Ethnography Revisiting Fred Zinnemann’s The Sundowners • Appearing at a moment in time when Australian national cinema had practically ground to a halt, Hollywood filmmaker Fred Zinnemann’s 1960 adaptation of a Jon Cleary novel about the physical and romantic travails of itinerant sheepshearers presaged key works in the Australian film revival of the following decade. Drawing on interviews conducted with Zinnemann and Cleary, Neil Sinyard examines the film’s origins, themes and place in its director’s oeuvre.
Flirting • DANICA VAN DE VELDE
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A Response to ‘History Is Never Finished: Trauma, Revolution and Reconciliation in Peter Hegedus’ Lili’