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ACMI Live in the Studio: April, May

ACMI has scheduled two more public forums for of its live television appreciation program with everything from Dexter to the Golden Girls.

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne has scheduled two more public forums for of its live television appreciation program Live in the Studio.

In April it looks at the sinister characters we love including Dexter and Jack Bauer and, in May it’s women on TV with Battlestar Galactica and The Golden Girls.

Loveable Murderers: The Sequel:
Thu 28 Apr 2011, 7pm

One year (and a hundred more murders) since the last sold-out session, writer and pop culture critic Martyn Pedler returns for a look at film and television’s loveable monsters, maniacs and killers.

“It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have” drawled Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven.

So why do we open our hearts to the likes of Dexter Morgan as he butchers another victim and winks at the camera?

From Hannibal Lector to Patrick Bateman, the Joker to Jack Bauer, Pedler asks how it is that the Dexters of popular culture make us overlook their obvious psychological deficiencies and love them – blood splatters and all.

The sequel to the popular Lovable Murderers talk includes updated new material on Dexter Morgan as a family man and the finale of 24.

Ladies on the Tube:
Thu 19 May 2011, 7pm

Join a stellar line-up of Live in the Studio lady alums – all feisty, saucy and whip-smart – as they put their best chromosomes forward to deliver a full night of ‘sisters on the tube’.

Dr Saige Walton fights the good fight with Battlestar Galactica and Veronica Mars while Dr Esther Milne maps out Laguna Beach, The Hills and The City.

Mel Campbell investigates how TV treats a female boss, Catherine Deveny looks at ‘our women’ in Aussie commercial television and Clementine Ford gets nostalgic with ’80s sitcoms Golden Girls and Roseanne.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas looks at horror film hostesses such as Vampira, Elvira and Australia’s own ghoulfriend Tabitha, and Professor Angela Ndalianis guides us through reality TV.

A major ladies’ night, featuring both lectures and performances.

2 Responses

  1. The ACMI now stands for American Centre for the Moving Image, the complete lack of Australian content is such a slap in the face to our moving history. From Disney, Burton, Len Lye, Pixar, Game On, these forums, the list goes on, nothing is even curated by ACMI itself. Just ship it over and put it up how Momar wants. And the worst of all? The lending collection access being taken away from Melbourne members. So all of the rare Australian archival content is only available to regional members and institutions, now gathering dust on shelves and the onsite viewing centre with it’s carefully selected content by management. It really stinks. Didn’t we learn anything from the farce that was Wake in Fright’s journey from release to 2009?

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