June-July 2018, no. 402

June-July 2018, no. 402

Welcome to the June-July Film and Television issue! Highlights include:

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Commentary

'Witch-hunt or a great awakening?: Tensions surrounding the #MeToo movement' by Felicity Chaplin

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Commentary

'The drama of it: Television comedy's new aesthetic' by James McNamara

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Film

2018 Australian Book Review Film Survey

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Society

Alecia Simmonds reviews 'Rape and Resistance: Understanding the complexities of sexual violation' by Linda Martín Alcoff

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Advances

Note from the guest editor - James McNamara

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - June–July 2018

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Commentary

'The Brodie set" Muriel Spark’s "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"' by Sally Grant

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Commentary

On 'Black Panther' by Dilan Gunawardana

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Film

Peter Goldsworthy reviews 'Hitler and Film: The Führer’s hidden passion' by Bill Niven

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Film

Philippa Hawker reviews '"La Parisienne" in Cinema: Between art and life' by Felicity Chaplin

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Film

Desley Deacon reviews 'Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling' by David Bordwell

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Film

Jake Wilson reviews 'Warner Bros: The Making of an American movie studio' by David Thomson

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Film

Suzy Freeman-Greene review 'Beyond the Silver Screen: A history of women, filmmaking and film culture in Australia 1920–1990' by Mary Tomsic

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Film

Varun Ghosh reviews 'Making a Meal of It: Writing about film' by Brian McFarlane

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Cultural Studies

Paul Giles reviews 'Love and Lament: An essay on the arts in Australia in the twentieth century' by Margaret Plant

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Economics

Rémy Davison reviews 'The Big Four: The curious past and perilous future of the global accounting monopoly' by Ian D. Gow and Stuart Kells

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Economics

Richard Walsh reviews 'Fair Share: Competing claims and Australia’s economic future' by Stephen Bell and Michael Keating

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Fiction

Beejay Silcox reviews 'Census' by Jesse Ball

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Fiction

Geordie Williamson reviews 'Last Stories' by William Trevor

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Fiction

Fiona Wright reviews 'Bohemia Beach' by Justine Ettler

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Fiction

Robert Dessaix reviews 'The Friendly Ones' by Philip Hensher

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Fiction

Carol Middleton reviews 'The Bridge' by Enza Gandolfo

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Fiction

Joachim Redner reviews 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' by Alfred Döblin, translated by Michael Hofmann

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Poetry

Judith Bishop reviews 'Zanzibar Light' by Philip Mead

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Poem

'Interruption: An Assay', a new poem by Jane Hirshfield

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Philosophy

Benjamin Madden reviews 'Enlightenment Now: The case for reason, science, humanism and progress' by Steven Pinker

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Psychology

Nick Haslam reviews 'The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment' by Gina Perry

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Memoir

Paul Morgan reviews 'The year everything changed: 2001' by Phillipa McGuinness

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True Crime

Johanna Leggatt reviews 'Waiting for Elijah' by Kate Wild

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Biology

Lauren Fuge reviews 'The Story of Shit' by Midas Dekkers, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier

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Memoir

Susan Sheridan reviews 'Do Oysters Get Bored?: A curious life' by Rozanna Lilley

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Poet of the Month

Poet of the Month with Philip Mead

Poetry

Dennis Haskell reviews 'Hard Horizons' by Geoff Page and 'The Left Hand Mirror' by Ron Pretty

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Critic of the Month

Critic of the Month with Brenda Niall

Letters

Letters to the Editor - June–July 2018

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