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<blockquote><font face="Verdana"><b>A SPECIAL SECTION FOR<i> METRO</i>
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The unease of passing milestones: 1975<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Verdana"><i>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.<br>
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Janet Bergstrom</font><br>
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Dear Colleague<br>
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I am writing to invite you to contribute to a special section of<i>
Metro</i> Magazine specifically devoted to reconsidering the legacies
of 1975 for the Australian cinema.<br>
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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<i> Picnic at Hanging
Rock</i> and<i> Sunday Too Far Away</i>. But it was also the year
of<i> Man from Hong Kong, Inn of the Damned, The Love Epidemic</i>,<i>
The Box</i> (the movie),<i> The Removalists</i> and<i> Pure S</i>.<br>
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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<i> Metro</i> 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Deadlines – These articles will be run over the next four or more
issues of<i> Metro</i>, so please submit your articles/thoughts as
soon as they are ready.<br>
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If you have any questions contact Deb Verhoeven</font>
<deb.verhoeven@rmit.edu.au> and please email your articles to me
as attachments in Microsoft Word.<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Verdana">Cheers</font></blockquote>
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