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<div align="center"><tt>UNSW Media Film and Theatre
Seminars</tt></div>
<div align="center"><tt>Wednesday 31 May 2006</tt></div>
<div align="center"><tt>5 p.m. Webster Building<font size="-1"
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<div align="center"><tt><font size="+3">Cultures of
Independence</font></tt></div>
<div align="center"><tt><font size="+1">Small/Independent US, UK and
Australian Presses</font></tt></div>
<div align="center"><tt><font size="+1">in an Age of Conglomerate
Publishing</font></tt></div>
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<div align="center"><tt><font size="+2">Noel King</font></tt></div>
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<div><tt><font size="+1">What are the present role and future
prospects of small and/or independent publishers at a time when large
presses work in tandem with the power of bookstore chains to put
certain kinds of book product in front of the book purchasing
public? </font></tt></div>
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<div><tt><font size="+1">In this paper, I look at small presses in
Australia (Fremantle Arts Centre Press; Wakefield Press; Scribe
Press), England (Pete Ayrton's Serpent's Tail Press in London) and the
US (Russ Chatham's Clark City Press in Livingston, Montana; Steerforth
Press in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Dennis McMillan's Press in
Tucson, Arizona). They all publish a mix of fiction,
non-fiction, poetry and cultural criticism. Drawing on
interviews I have conducted with the publishers, I discuss their
aesthetic and business strategies of their respective publishing
enterprises and reveal how they survive in our contemporary moment of
globalised, big-merger publishing.</font></tt></div>
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<div><tt><font size="+1"><i>Dr Noel King is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Media Studies at Macquarie
University.</i></font></tt></div>
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<div><tt><font size="-1" color="#000000">Dr James Donald<br>
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre<br>
University of New South Wales<br>
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NSW 2052<br>
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