Thesis
A history of the film and television institute of Western Australia
Honours, Murdoch University
1986
Abstract
This dissertation traces a history of the Film and Television Institute of W.A. (FTI). The forms the Institute has assumed are seen as a result of the regional politics of a screen culture, which have been, nonetheless, significantly informed by wider discourses and national policies on film. The history is largely presented as a chronological narrative that marks out the Institute's participation in a screen culture through its adoption of particular emphases in the activities of exhibition, training and production. The forms in which these activities are realised ascribe film a particular social use and function. This is highlighted through the Institute's association with independent filmmaking groups, and its predecessor's (PIFT's) forced amalgamation with Frevideo, the video access centre, which introduce differing dimensions to what constitutes a screen culture. The political implications of particular filmic practices the Institute has engaged in were made manifest at a seminar hosted by FTI in 1984 titled: 'Towards a Western Australian Film Industry'. This seminar provided a forum that aired both the diverse conceptions of a film industry, and the contradictory nature of these conceptions within a film industry posited as a complementary unity.
Details
- Title
- A history of the film and television institute of Western Australia
- Authors/Creators
- Tim Fetherstonhaugh
- Contributors
- Alan Mansfield (Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Murdoch University; Honours
- Identifiers
- 991005612270307891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Resource Type
- Thesis
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