Cultural conservation is concerned with how cultural material is preserved as it moves from the past, through the present and into the future. This material may be books in libraries, documents in archives…
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When we watch a movie, how do we know where and when it is taking place? This is just one of the questions a production designer working on a film or TV show helps audiences answer. They do so through…
Zines are small-circulation, self-published magazines. Their emergence can be traced back to fanzine, a term used by science-fiction fans from the 1940s to set their amateur publications about popular…
The first thing to understand about the Oscars is that, as a measure of the aesthetic value of films, they are completely unreliable. To understand why this is the case, we need to know what exactly “The…
Nothing defines our use of the internet as clearly as the concept of the meme (pronounced “meem”). Every day, millions of people laugh at LOLcats, dog shaming, and music videos without music, while others…
I once asked a group of my students if they knew what the term postmodernism meant: one replied that it’s when you put everything in quotation marks. It wasn’t such a bad answer, because concepts such…
It should come as no surprise in the nation that gave the world the Big Pineapple, the Big Guitar, the Big Sheep, and, for that matter, a Big Ad, that the size of a cultural artefact in and of itself is…
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Art, RMIT University
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Visiting Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University
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Tutor in Media Studies, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Music, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Design, Associate Dean (International), Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer of English, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Eneritus Professor of English Language and Early English Literature, University of Sydney
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Professor of Music, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Independent art historian and Honorary Fellow at the Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
