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journal article		After The Fox : whither film culture? in Metro (2000) iss.121/122 p.9-12 Author: Hodsdon, Barrett PhysDes: Article; Bibliography Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: Comments on the role and direction of screen culture in Australia. More info
journal article		Commercial pipedreams? in Filmnews (Australia) (Oct-89) vol.XIX iss.10 p.6 Author: Hodsdon, Barrett PhysDes: Article Subject: INDEPENDENT EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE Summary: Australian film scholar, Barrett Hodsdon, critiques the Australian Film Institute's current exhibition strategies, arguing that the AFI Strategic Review is too superficial to promote change. Notes: Article More info
book		The elusive auteur : the question of film authorship throughout the age of cinema / by Barrett Hodsdon Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc, c2017. Call No: 621 HOD Author: Hodsdon, Barrett Source: US Place: Jefferson, North Carolina Publisher: McFarland & Company Inc PubDate: c2017 PhysDes: x, 327 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Subject: AUTHORSHIP; ADAPTATIONS; AUTEUR THEORY Summary: "The director's authorial role in filmmaking has been much debated among film critics and scholars for decades. Examining the controversy in relation to Hollywood directors, the author compares directors and would-be auteurs of the classic studio system with those of contemporary Hollywood and its new climate of cultural entrepreneurship"-- publisher's web site Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index ISBN: 9781476668734 Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Notes on Terminology Part I: Critical Origins 1. Authorial Function and Historical Precedents 2. Cahiers du Cinema and Founding the Discourse of Auteur Criticism: Snapshots in Time 3. Andrew Sarris and the Auteur Re-Evaluation of Hollywood Part II: Auteur Concepts and Problematics 4. Reconsidering the Underpinnings of Traditional Auteur Criticism 5. Agency and Authorship: Forms of Mediation 6. Extending the Lineages of Authorship: Art Cinema and the Avant-Garde Part III: The Director in the Classic Hollywood System 7. The Hierarchy of Directors and Work Relations 8. Reconciling the Director with Creative Contributors 9. Reformulating Authorial Presence: The Value of a Neoformalist Designation 10. Triumphs, Accommodations, Victims and Mavericks: 15 Examples Part IV: Cinephilia Revisited 11. Cinephilia and Its Historical Trajectory 12. Recapturing the Sublime Moment: A Spectrum of Films Part V: The Changing Face of Hollywood and the Shifting Sands of Authorship Since the 1970s 13. From Vision to Branding 14. Contemporary Hollywood Directors and Auteur Slippage: Illustrating the New Breed of Auteurs Part VI: Auteur Displacement in the Digital Age 15. The Inheritance from the Past 16. The Enclave of Art Cinema 17. Old Notions of Authorship Unhinged 18. Revamping Cinephilia in a Postmodern Climate 19. Implications of the Media Revolution The Last Word Chapter Notes Bibliography Index More info
journal article		Looking for the filmmaker in the doco in Filmnews (Australia) (Sep-89) vol.XIX iss.8 p.09-Oct Author: Hodsdon, Barrett Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; AWARDS. AUSTRALIA; EDUCATION, FILM. AUSTRALIA Summary: Report on the program of lectures and screenings organised by the Australian National University's Humanties Research Centre on the topic "Documentary: a fiction (un)like any other"., curated by American screen studies academic, Bill Nichols. Analyses issues raised by the seminars, and examines a selection of documentaries on show at the Australian Film Institute Awards. Notes: Conf. Rep More info
book		Report on minority exhibition and distribution / Barrett Hodsdon 1976. Call No: 303(94) HOD Author: Hodsdon, Barrett Source: AT PubDate: 1976 Subject: EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; INDEPENDENT DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; INDEPENDENT EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA Summary: A report that examines minority exhibition and distribution in Australia and how it relates to filmmaker cooperatives and film culture Notes: author listed on cover as Barrett Hodson More info
Interim book		Straight roads and crossed lines : the quest for film culture in Australia from the 1960s? / Barrett Hodsdon ; editor: Peter Mudie Shenton Park, WA: Bernt Porridge Group, 2001. Call No: 71(94) HOD Author: Hodsdon, Barrett. Source: AT Place: Shenton Park, WA Publisher: Bernt Porridge Group PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: 205 p. : ill., 24 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1990's; SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE Notes: Includes index. ISBN: 0957921004 More info
book		A study of the secondary film market / Barrett Hodsdon [Sydney? : s.n.]: 1974. Call No: 301.6(94) HOD Author: Hodsdon, Barrett Source: AT Place: [Sydney? : s.n.] PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 80 p. ; 30 cm Subject: DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM. AUSTRALIA Notes: Cover subtitle: A survey of some aspects of 16 mm film supply and demand and issues relating to film archives in Australia More info

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