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The first part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the
transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film
Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period
between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became
established in the academy. Tracing critical positions, personnel,
and institutions across this formative period, Noel King,
Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams examine a multitude of books
and journal articles published in Australia and distributed
internationally though such processes as publication in overseas
journals, translation and reprinting. At the same time, they offer
important insights about the origins of Australian film theory and
its relationship to such related disciplines as English and
cultural studies. Ultimately, Australian Film Theory and Criticism,
Volume 1 delineates the historical implications - and reveals the
future possibilities - of establishing new directions of inquiry
for film studies in Australia and internationally. Australian Film
Theory and Criticism, Volume 2 and 3 are also now available from
Intellect.
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.
As the title suggests, this collection takes the environment as its
central theme, alerting us to the flood waters to come. Quirky at
times and at times shocking, Noel King also casts his gaze over
Irish peacekeepers in the Lebanon, a Cornish minor, and a housewife
rejected by her Gaelic football-loving husband, among others.
The era in which Ibn Battuta traveled to the East was exciting but
turbulent, cursed by the Black Plague and the fall of mighty
dynasties. His account provides a first-hand account of increased
globalisation due to the rise of Islam, as well as the relationship
between the Western world and India and China in the 14th century.
There are insights into the complex power dynamics of the time, as
well a personal glimpse of the author's life as he sought to
survive them, always staying on the move. The Ri?la contains great
value as a historical document, but also for its religious
commentary, especially regarding the marvels and miracles that Ibn
Battuta encountered. It is also an entertaining narrative with a
wealth of anecdotes, often humorous or shocking, and in many cases
touchingly human. The book records the journey of Ibn Battuta, a
Moroccan jurist who travels to the East, operating at high levels
of government within the vibrant Muslim network of India and China.
It offers fascinating details into the cultures and dynamics of
that region, but goes beyond other travelogues due to the dramatic
narrative of its author - tragedies and wonders fill its pages -
shared for the greater glory of Allah and the edification of its
contemporary audience in the West.
As the title, Prophesying the Past suggests, this collection plays
with our sense of space and time moving back and forth across
dates; locations; time zones; generations and even across the
boundary between life and death. The poems in Prophesying the Past
are never sentimental or didactic, it is left to the reader to
savour the cumulative effect as the poems speak through an urbane
voice; rooted in history, both social and political but always
contemporary in outlook. The personas in this work give voice to
the personal and economic dilemmas of a people, from wartime
Ireland through to the post Celtic Tiger era. These are poems to be
savoured by the generation who were there and explored by the young
to find the foundations upon which they stand today.
The era in which Ibn Battuta traveled to the East was exciting but
turbulent, cursed by the Black Plague and the fall of mighty
dynasties. His account provides a first-hand account of increased
globalisation due to the rise of Islam, as well as the relationship
between the Western world and India and China in the 14th century.
There are insights into the complex power dynamics of the time, as
well a personal glimpse of the author's life as he sought to
survive them, always staying on the move. The Ri?la contains great
value as a historical document, but also for its religious
commentary, especially regarding the marvels and miracles that Ibn
Battuta encountered. It is also an entertaining narrative with a
wealth of anecdotes, often humorous or shocking, and in many cases
touchingly human. The book records the journey of Ibn Battuta, a
Moroccan jurist who travels to the East, operating at high levels
of government within the vibrant Muslim network of India and China.
It offers fascinating details into the cultures and dynamics of
that region, but goes beyond other travelogues due to the dramatic
narrative of its author - tragedies and wonders fill its pages -
shared for the greater glory of Allah and the edification of its
contemporary audience in the West.
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