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AT LAST WE KNOW what is with Australian films and film-makers. Its not the American films that swamp our movie houses, or the failure of some of our best films to attract anything like adequate distribution or publicity. No--it is because our film-makers don't know anything about Screen Studies: or at least that is the view of Jane Mills, the former Head of Screen Studies at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. "What's lacking in much Australian cinema," she argued in an opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald on 22nd October,
is the "C word". "C" as in content. Many of our films are unimaginative and empty. Few film-makers offer much ...