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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.

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Issue 172, Autumn 2012: Contents
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Australian and New Zealand Cinema

Generation Why: Any Questions for Ben? – Dave Hoskin
Holiday in Cambodia: Wish You Were Here's Postcard Paranoia – Mathieu Ravier

Married to the Yobs: A Few Best Men – Andrew Moraitis
From Drag Queens to Best Men: An Interview with Stephan Elliott – Thomas Caldwell
Questions of Desire: Black & White & Sex – Lauren Bliss
The Other Side of Paradise: Tusi Tamasese on The Orator – Richard Gray
The Dragon Pearl and the Chinese Connection: An Interview with Mario Andreacchio – Cheung Ki-fung and Mike Walsh
Revelling in the Red Light Revolution: An Interview with Sam Voutas – Dan Edwards
Short Films Cast Long Shadows: Flickerfest 2012 – Myke Bartlett

Australia on the Small Screen

Uncharted Waters: The Straits – Cav Gallagher

Focus on Asia and the Middle East

Downloading the Uprisings: Digital Citizens and the Cinema of Democracy – Anthony Carew

Director in the Dark: Kim Ki-duk's Arirang – Julia Mayer
The Borrowers Abroad: Arrietty – Paul Jackson
Laughter on the Road to Recovery: The 2011 Japanese Film Festival – Richard Gray

Documentary

Power Plays and Media Manipulation in East Timor: Breaking the News – Dan Edwards

Document – Recent Australian Documentary:

On Borrowed Time – Lorraine Mortimer
My America – Martin McKenzie-Murray
Life in Vitro – Fiona Trigg
Fantome Island – Jill Pope

Renewal in the Ranks: A Proposal for Australian Documentary – Trish FitzSimons

Critical Views

A Very Alive Man: A Farewell to David Ngoombujarra – Lorraine Mortimer

The NFSA's Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection

Petersen Brian McFarlane

Industry Perspectives

Engineered Serendipity: Attending the 2012 Rotterdam Lab – Jeremy Macey
Building Networks, Nurturing Productions: Realising Visions at SPAAmart – Michael Clarkin
Creative Sound: Dialogue Up Close – David Raines

TV and Media

Subersive Superheroes: Outsized Role Models Take a Queer Turn – Myke Bartlett

Regular Features

TV Eye

Homeland – Dave Hoskin
Outland – Myke Bartlett
Terra Nova – Ed Yates

Book Reviews

Amateur Images and Global News by Kari Andén-Papadopoulous and Mervi Pantti (eds) – Annie McLoughlin
Flim Criticism as Cultural Fantasy by Andrew McGregor – Simon Sigley
The Sound of Pictures by Andrew Ford and Drawn to Sound by Rebecca Coyle (ed.) – Brian Yatman

Technical Section: Vue 10 Infinite and Poser Pro 2012 – Christopher Kenworthy
Shortcuts Tina Kaufman