Brian McFarlane has had three overlapping careers, as teacher, academic and writer. He is the author or editor of over 20 books and hundreds of articles on film and literature and related matters. He co-edited the Oxford Companion to Australian Film and was compiler, editor, and chief author of The Encyclopedia of British Film, and most recently he published his memoir, Real and Reel, a light-hearted record of a lifetime’s obsession with the movies – and with writing about them. He is an international authority on British cinema and on the adaptation of literature to film. In Australia he is known as a regular reviewer in The Age, Australian Book Review, Metro and Inside Story. He lives in Melbourne and is currently serving as Adjunct Professor, Swinburne Institute of Social Research, Swinburne Institute of Technology and as Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University.
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Making a Meal of It
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Double-Act
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Double-Act
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ANU Meet the Author – Leigh Boucher & Michelle Arrow
Australian National University
Cultural Centre, 153 University Avenue, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Leigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their book, with Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, an insightful...
Verge 2024: Click Launch
The Alderman
134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC
In the eighteenth edition of this creative anthology, 26 writers explore consonance and assonance that rattle like a chattering jaw, narratives composed of hyperlinked rabbit-holing, and stories that tick with...
Dave Witty ‘The Lost Children’s Tree’ – Words in Winter Festival
The Lost Childrens Cairn Memorial Reserve
4360 Midland Hwy, Daylesford, VIC
As part of this year’s Words in Winter festival, I will be doing a special talk. I’m telling the story of the three children who went missing in Daylesford in...
ANU Meet the Author – Leigh Boucher & Michelle Arrow
Australian National University Cultural Centre, 153 University Avenue, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaLeigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their book, with Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, an insightful...
Verge 2024: Click Launch
The Alderman 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VICIn the eighteenth edition of this creative anthology, 26 writers explore consonance and assonance that rattle like a chattering jaw, narratives composed of hyperlinked rabbit-holing, and stories that tick with...
Dave Witty ‘The Lost Children’s Tree’ – Words in Winter Festival
The Lost Childrens Cairn Memorial Reserve 4360 Midland Hwy, Daylesford, VICAs part of this year’s Words in Winter festival, I will be doing a special talk. I’m telling the story of the three children who went missing in Daylesford in...
