Independent, outspoken and often polemical, Metro features writing by some of the region's foremost academics and critics, providing readers with comprehensive coverage of Australian, New Zealand, Asian, and Pacific screen industries. Combining a wide range of topics and disciplines, Metro offers a unique blend of in-depth scholarship and popular writing, perfectly capturing key trends and developments in screen culture.

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Alone Together • GREGOR JORDAN ON ADAPTING THE INTANGIBLE IN DIRT MUSIC

House of Horrors • AGEING AND LOSS IN NATALIE ERIKA JAMES’ RELIC

Performance, Transgression and Transformation • Relying heavily on improvisation and spontaneity in crafting stories of queer identity and loss, Angie Black’s independent debut feature collapses numerous narrative and aesthetic boundaries. As Gabrielle O’Brien argues, the film’s matter-of-fact representation of a marginalised milieu, single-take cabaret-act intrusions and insistent focus on the tactile combine to create a rare work that is radical in both content and form.

All You Can Be • SELF-ACTUALISATION, SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND DISABILITY IN PAUL BARAKAT’S KAIROS

Aussie Mayhem • JUDD TILYARD ON JESSE O’BRIEN’S TWO HEADS CREEK

Sounds of Loss • Time and Displacement in Allison Chhorn’s The Plastic House

Forever Young • Music and Mystery in Sam Zubrycki’s Miguelito: Canto a Borinquen

Making Visible • Out Here, Love Bites and LGBTQIA+ Documentary on the Small Screen

Singing from the Rooftops • Art, Ambition and Hometown Pride in Liselle Mei’s Love Opera

Sweet, Sour and Spicy Country • ISOLATION AS PERFORMANCE IN WARWICK THORNTON’S THE BEACH

Signs and Wonders • BRINGING THE LUMINARIES TO SCREEN

Hidden Idols and Clued-in Contenders • THE EVOLUTION OF AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR

‘ Rummaging Through the Rubble ’ • CREATIVE CONSTRAINTS IN PROTOTYPE’S RAPID-RESPONSE CARE PACKAGE

Laughter Through Tears • PALESTINE AND SELF-PORTRAITURE IN THE FILMS OF ELIA SULEIMAN

Indeterminate Past • DEATH, REGRET AND TIME TRAVEL IN MATTIE DO’S THE LONG WALK

Cinema Science Picking Up the Frequencies of The Dish • A DRAMATISATION OF THE KEY ROLE AN AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY PLAYED IN THE LIVE BROADCAST OF THE FIRST HUMAN STEPS ON THE MOON HALF-A-CENTURY AGO, ROB SITCH’S 2000 COMEDY MIXES HISTORICAL DETAIL WITH SOME ELISIONS AND FLIGHTS OF FANCY. AS DAVE CREWE DISCUSSES, THE FILM HAS GREAT POTENTIAL FOR CLASSROOM LEARNING ON SUBJECTS SUCH AS ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, TRIGONOMETRY AND GENDER REPRESENTATION IN SCIENCE.

Counterfeit Images A History of Blackface on Australian Television • OFTEN CHARACTERISED AS A FOREIGN PHENOMENON, RACIALISED CARICATURE OF BLACK PEOPLE HAS BEEN A PERSISTENT FEATURE OF AUSTRALIAN SCREEN CULTURE, FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF LOCAL CINEMA TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY TELEVISION. EXPLORING ITS THREE CHIEF MANIFESTATIONS – AS MINSTREL ACT, DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION AND COMEDIC MOTIF – AND FOCUSING PRIMARILY ON THE SMALL SCREEN, STEPHEN VAGG OUTLINES HOW THE PRACTICE HAS EVOLVED WITH THE TIMES, FOREVER CARRYING ECHOES OF HISTORICAL (AND ONGOING) EXCLUSION, HUMILIATION AND IGNORANCE.

Pandemic Paradox Navigating Technology in the Time of COVID-19 • AS THE RACE TO CONTAIN COVID-19 CONTINUES, NEW TECHNOLOGY HAS SIMULTANEOUSLY BECOME ONE OF OUR BEST RESOURCES AND MOST SIGNIFICANT STUMBLING BLOCKS, WITH DEVICES AND ONLINE PLATFORMS BEING USED TO SPREAD MISINFORMATION, SOW DIVISION, UNDERMINE PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING AND BROADEN THE SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL. LOOKING AT THE ROLES PLAYED BY SOCIAL MEDIA, NEWS PLATFORMS AND DIGITAL CONTACT-TRACING METHODS IN RESPONDING TO AND EXACERBATING THE...