[csaa-forum] The unease of passing milestones: 1975

[Deb Verhoeven]

Apologies for cross postings........

A SPECIAL SECTION FOR METRO MAGAZINE

The unease of passing milestones: 1975


In anthropological terms, a calendar year counts 
for nothing. But the history of cinema is much 
shorter, and sometimes a single year has stood 
out.

Janet Bergstrom


Dear Colleague

I am writing to invite you to contribute to a 
special section of Metro Magazine specifically 
devoted to reconsidering the legacies of 1975 for 
the Australian cinema.

By any measurement 1975 was a watershed year for 
the Australian media. It was a time of 
significant beginnings  (colour TV, the AFC and 
the SAFC, JJJ) and endings (the last cinema 
newsreel for instance). It’s easy to remember 
that it was the year of Picnic at Hanging Rock 
and Sunday Too Far Away. But it was also the year 
of Man from Hong Kong, Inn of the Damned, The 
Love Epidemic, The Box (the movie), The 
Removalists and Pure S.

We are interested in your views on what 1975 
might mean in terms of the past, present and 
future of Australian cinema. You are invited to 
contribute in whatever style suits: it might be a 
personal recollection or a political opinion, a 
set of images or an anecdote, an academic 
argument or a fictional imagining. You might have 
a specific date and event in mind. Or you might 
want to think more generally about drifts and 
ebbs in the cultural and political landscape. 
This section of Metro is not intended to be an 
exhaustive account of 1975, but rather a shifting 
prism of perspectives that includes (but is not 
restricted to) the views of practitioners, 
policymakers and academics; those who were there 
and those who weren’t.

In order to include as many responses as possible 
the only stipulation is that you keep it short. 
Each entry should aim to be 1,000 words or less.

Deadlines – These articles will be run over the 
next four or more issues of Metro, so please 
submit your articles/thoughts as soon as they are 
ready.

If you have any questions contact Deb Verhoeven 
<deb.verhoeven at rmit.edu.au> and please email your 
articles to me as attachments in Microsoft Word.

Cheers
         Deb Verhoeven



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