Australian History

The Layout of the Land

by Jack Clancy •

March 1981, no. 28

The Best of The Age 1979-1980 by Peter Cole-Adams

Nelson, 182 pp

Australian History

The Layout of the Land

by Jack Clancy •

March 1981, no. 28

The best of a newspaper should be, or used to be, news. But in the electronic age, when sheer questions of the very survival of print media are raised often enough, mere news is not enough. The press has those functions of interpretation, comment and backgrounding which electronic news gathering rarely has time for or interest in, and one of the qualities which marks a quality paper is its activities in these areas. And the quality of those activities.

Jack Clancy

Jack Clancy (1934-2014) taught film studies at RMIT for many years and was instrumental in the institutionalization of the discipline in Australian universities. In addition to his work inside the university, Clancy served on the Melbourne panel for the Experimental Film Fund established by Prime Minister John Gorton in an initiative intended to spur the Australian film production industry. The Jack Clancy Lecture at RMIT was established to honour his contributions to both the university and Australian cinematic culture.