Dear colleagues
Issue No 131 of Media International Australia
(MIA) is now available: Australian Media
Reception Histories, edited by Michelle Arrow,
Bridget Griffen-Foley and Marnie Hughes-Warrington
From the editorial: We are delighted to present
a landmark collection of papers on Australian
Media Reception Histories. The themed section
makes for fascinating and thought-provoking
reading and really does, as the editors
suggest, foster a ?broader appraisal of the
history of the Australian media than
traditional studies of production have
provided?. The eight papers they present cover
a broad range of media forms (sensationalist
press, cinema, talkback radio, magazines,
drama, news and current affairs), and their
authors inventively draw upon various methods
and forms of evidence (from trials and oral
histories, through readers and viewers?
letters, to geography, GIS and web forums).
Abstracts and further details are available on
the website: <http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/>www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/
General Articles
Henry Mayer Lecture 2009: From Dallas to SBS:
The popular, the global and the diverse on television, Ien Ang
When TV formats migrate: The languages of business and culture, Albert Moran
Diversity reportage in metropolitan Oceania: The
mantra and the reality, David Robie
Representing Australianness: Our national
identity brought to you by Today Tonight, Damian McIver
Nerds in the city: Flight of the Conchords makes
good television humour, Mike Lloyd
Australian Media Reception Histories
'Reading in brown paper': Beckett?s Budget and
the sensationalist press in interwar Sydney, Sophie Loy-Wilson
Limit of maps? Locality and cinema-going in Australia, Kate Bowles
Beyond media ?platforms?? Talkback, radio, technology and audience, Liz Gould
Desiring the (popular feminist) reader: Letters
to Cleo during the second wave, Megan Le Masurier
Debating the barrel girl: The rise and fall of Panda Lisner, Susan Bye
How to be a man: Masculinity in Australian teen
culture and American teen movies, Scott McKinnon
Remembering Changi: Public memory and the popular media, Paula Hamilton
The decline of traditional news and current
affairs audiences in Australia, Sally Young