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March 31, 2020  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In Book Review, Uncategorized

Is Jesus History? A review

John Dickson has an impressive CV. He was the Founding Director of theCentre for Public Christianity. He has a degree in theology and a Ph.D. inancient history. An ordained Anglican minister, he was a Research Fellow of the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, and became a Visiting Academic in the Faculty of Classics […]

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March 6, 2020  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In Uncategorized

It All Begins With A Song: The Story of the Nashville Songwriter

A recent documentary on famous singer song writer Dolly Parton showed her performing a 50th anniversary show at the Grand Ole Opry. This is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio ‘barn dance”. It is the longest-running […]

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March 5, 2020  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In Book Review, film history, Uncategorized

The Brothers Mankiewicz review: a groundbreaking dual biography

Sydney Ladensohn Stern, The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope. Heartbreak and Hollywood Classics (USA: University Press of Mississippi, 2019) The writing talent alone of the Mankiewicz Brothers – Herman and Joseph – is overwhelming. Younger brother Joseph won academy awards for writing and directing, particularly for the verbal fireworks of All About Eve, and Herman laid the basis […]

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February 7, 2020  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In film review

Wow S1gnal

One night in 1977, Ohio radio astronomers discovered a strong, interstellar signal that many argue could be the best evidence of communication from an extraterrestrial civilization or aliens. It is known as the ‘Wow! Signal’ , because of a note left by the astronomer looking over the computer results. In the documentary, director Bob Dawson […]

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January 2, 2020  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In Book Review, film history

No more Grapes of Wrath – really?

Jill Lepore’s magisterial These Truths is a fantastic book. It is highly ambitious and delivers a strong narrative history of the United States. Professor Lepore has taken the United States Constitution as a starting point for a highly impressive single volume survey of the history of the USA. Impressive as it is, it is not […]

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December 24, 2019  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In Book Review, Uncategorized

What place does history have in a post-truth world?

The Knowledge Solution: Australian History Anna Clark, Melbourne University Press, 2019 Book Review When the subtitle of a book reads: “What place does history have in apost-truth world?”, you would think that the book might actually touch upon the topic. Anna Clark has edited this book on Australian historical writing. AssociateProfessor Clark is an Australian […]

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May 18, 2019  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In Uncategorized

‘Change the nation forever’: Shorten invokes Whitlam in final push

https://www.watoday.com.au/federal-election-2019/change-the-nation-forever-shorten-invokes-whitlam-in-final-push-20190516-p51nxz.html By Judith Ireland May 16, 2019 — 1.57pm Add to shortlist Labor leader Bill Shorten has told supporters he wants to “change the nation forever” in his final major speech of the election campaign, vowing to start “from day one” if elected on Saturday. Speaking at a rally in Sydney on Thursday, Mr Shorten said […]

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April 14, 2019  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In Uncategorized

New book on lobbying focuses on Local Government

A new book looks at Local Government as a lobbyist in the Australian political framework. http://www.lgfocus.com.au/editions/2019-04/new-book-on-lobbying-focuses-on-local-government.php Local Government is featured in two articles by Socom’s Managing Director, David Hawkins, and former Local Government Focus editor, Dr Kevin Brianton, who is now a senior lecturer in strategic communication at La Trobe University. The two articles represent […]

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January 26, 2019  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In film history, Uncategorized

Ayn Rand and the Motion Picture Alliance

While the studios were beginning to bring out anti-communist films, the right began to look for other targets. Not content with driving communists out of Hollywood, the right turned its attention to films with liberal messages. Ayn Rand wrote a Screen Guide for Americans in 1947 for the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of […]

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January 17, 2019  |  By Kevin Brianton  |  In Book Review

The Screen is Red – book review

Brianton, Kevin Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018, Vol.48(2), pp.64-67 Bernard F. Dick, The Screen Is Red: Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. 282 pp., illus. Hardcover: $65. During the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities – or HUAC – investigations of Hollywood in 1947, chairman […]

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