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About Metro

Metro is a partially refereed quarterly magazine specialising in essays and articles, reviews, interviews and analysis of Australian, New Zealand and Asian features, shorts and documentaries. It also covers television, radio, multimedia, animation, the internet and new media. Published since 1968, Metro is Australia’s oldest continuously published film and media magazine. The magazine keeps alive the tradition of the essay, immersing the reader in well-informed, analytical and thought-provoking discussion.

Metro receives funding from Screen Australia, Film Victoria and Screen NSW.

Metro is available through subscription or digitally via Zinio, and will soon be available via the Apple Newsstand.

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Issue 171, Summer 2012: Contents
(Click on the previews to read selected articles)

Australian and New Zealand Cinema

Flame-grilled Grief: Burning Man – Rowena Robertson
Restoration Drama: Face to Face – Andrew Fuhrmann
Half Empty: The Cup – Myke Bartlett
In the Impact Zone: Caught Inside – Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
'They Fixed My Broken Heart': Surviving Georgia's Saccharine Swoon – Carly Millar
Bright Night of the Flesh: Jon Hewitt and Belinda Mcclory Discuss X – Jack Sargeant

Australia on the Small Screen

The Slap: The Heavy Hand of a Hard-hitting Drama – Kit MacFarlane

Focus on Asia and the Middle East

This Bird Has Flown: Tran Anh Hung's Norwegian Wood – Sarinah Masukor

Speaking a Universal Language: An Interview with Tran Anh Hung – Richard Gray
Panahi vs. the State: This Is Not a Film – Alice Burgin
Brilliant Korea: The 16th Busan International Film Festival – Julia Mayer
Animal Magnetism: On South Korean Director Yim Soon-rye – Julia Mayer

Documentary

Finely Tuned: Antenna International Documentary Film Festival – Mathieu Ravier
Document Recent Australian Documentary

Autoluminescent – Fiona Trigg
The Hungry Tide – Shweta Kishore

‘A Journey We Take Together’: An Interview with Documentary Maker Tom Zubrycki – Dan Edwards

Upfront Filmmaking: The Ethics of Documentary Relationships – Steve Thomas

New Media

New Directions for Documentary: Recent Interactive and Cross-platform Productions – Julia Scott-Stevenson

Tweet the Press: How Social Media is Changing the Way Journalists Do Their Jobs – Matthew Clayfield

Critical Views

Rites of Return: Yael Bartana – Kate Warren
The Female Journalist in Bollywood: Middle-class Career Woman or Problematic National Heroine? – Sukhmani Khorana
Through the Lens: Interviews from the Australian Film Theory and Criticism Project – Michael Eaton interviewed by Noel King

The NFSA's Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection

The Year My Voice Broke Rose Lucas

Industry Perspectives

Creative Sound: Dialogue Up Close – David Raines

TV and Media

Under Whose Skin? The Subtle Scalpel of Louis Theroux – Dave Hoskin
noitaminA: Animation through the Looking-Glass – Paul Jackson
Outside Stories: Manga on the Margins – Mio Bryce

Regular Features

TV Eye

Wilfred – Dave Hoskin
At Home With Julia – Marilyn Tofler
The Bazura Project – Ed Yates
At the Movies – Dave Hoskin

Technical Section: Final Cut Pro X – Christopher Kenworthy
Book Review: Real and Reel by Brian McFarlane – Charles Barr
Shortcuts Tina Kaufman