
How can we construct the figure of an author in film? There are two broadįirst, abstracting the individual in his or her

When ex-Screen editor Sam Rohdie read them, heĭrily commented to me in the NFTA foyer: “When film theory appears in publicityīlurbs like these, it’s time to start writing something else”. Program notes for the National Film Theatre of Australia’s Hitchcock season Hitchcock was (and still is today) a constant point of reference the lecture It was a time of my life when I was stillĮxcitedly discovering (and applying) the film theory, “structuralist semiotics”Īnd textual analysis protocols bequeathed by the 1960s & ‘70s, areas where

Served as a tutor in Rob Jordan’s 1 st year film course, which I have no definite memory or record of whenĪnd where the following talk on Shadow of a Doubt (combined here with a preceding introductory lecture) was delivered,īut I suspect it may have been at RMIT during 1981, during the time that I In that period, my lecture commissionsĬovered a curious random assortment of films, including Tout va bien (1972), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Mother and the Whore (1973), Angel City (1976), and Rear Institute of Technology, and Swinburne Technical College – all these names Gave my first, occasional, invited lectures in cinema courses at threeĭifferent tertiary institutions (Melbourne State College, Royal Melbourne It is speculated to have originated from the American English.Introduction (January 2021): Between 19 – and the ages of 19 and 21 – I The phrase plays on the words of there not even being a shadow of a doubt which just means that there is no doubt about that particular thing. His guilt is now proved beyond a shadow of doubt.When getting into such a huge contract you better be sure of this company beyond a shadow of doubt.She showed me pictures of her grandmother wearing it for her wedding. My grandmother was sure beyond a shadow of doubt that the ring belonged to her ancestors.My mother was convinced beyond a shadow of doubt that he was the best match for me.The community leader mention that his people will not be resorting to any violence beyond a shadow of doubt.That is why I did not lend him a single penny for his business.

I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that he will not keep his word.The government has clarified beyond a shadow of doubt that the people who have been evading taxes so far will be caught very soon.to be (something) without any doubt about it.to be certain about something’s validity.
