This special issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema features a selection of papers presented at the 17th Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (FHAANZ) conference, held at Queensland University of Technology between 1 and 3 July 2015. This was the first FHAANZ conference to be hosted in Queensland since 1998. Informed by historical and archival research, the articles examine overlooked or underdeveloped aspects of screen history, offer new historical perspectives, or consider key contemporary issues regarding the preservation of Australian screen history. The previous – 16th – FHAANZ conference, Screen, History, Memory, was hosted by Victoria University, La Trobe University and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in 2012, while the 15th FHAANZ conference, Cinema, Modernity and Modernism, was hosted by the University of New South Wales in 2010. Historically a biennial conference, the most recent conference could not be held until 2015 as the guest editors were unavailable to convene at the time, and no other institutional support had yet been secured. Not since 1996, when the conference was hosted by the University of Waikato and held immediately after the 1995 event hosted by the Australian National University as FHAANZ switched from odd to even years, has a FHAANZ conference broken the biennial sequence. As such, the 17th FHAANZ Conference is somewhat of an anomaly, and as a result, ‘biennial’ was removed from the conference title. The 2015 conference also varies from previous conferences in terms of its focus. The 2010 and 2012 conferences both featured themed programmes that attracted papers, panels and discussion around very specific aspects of Australian and New Zealand screen history, in step with many FHAANZ conferences before them. The 2015 event by contrast invited submissions on any aspect of screen studies and film history and topics included:

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回顾澳大利亚的屏幕历史

本期《澳大利亚电影研究》以2015年7月1日至3日在昆士兰科技大学举行的第17届澳大利亚和新西兰电影与历史协会（FHAANZ）会议上发表的论文为特色。这是第一次FHAANZ会议自1998年起将在昆士兰州举办。在历史和档案研究的指导下，这些文章探讨了被忽视或未开发的银幕历史方面，提供了新的历史观点，或考虑了有关保存澳大利亚银幕历史的主要当代问题。上一届（第16届）FHAANZ会议（屏幕，历史，记忆）由维多利亚大学，拉筹伯大学和澳大利亚运动图像中心于2012年举办，而第15届FHAANZ会议（电影，现代性和现代主义）该会议由新南威尔士大学于2010年主办。从历史上看，该会议每两年召开一次，直到2015年才召开，因为当时无法邀请特邀编辑开会，也没有其他机构的支持。自从1996年由怀卡托大学主持会议，并在FHAANZ从奇数年改为偶数年由澳大利亚国立大学主办1995年活动之后立即举行以来，FHAANZ会议打破了两年一次的惯例。因此，第17届FHAANZ会议有点反常，因此，“双年展”已从会议名称中删除。就重点而言，2015年会议也不同于以往的会议。2010年和2012年的会议均以主题计划为特色，吸引了论文，围绕澳大利亚和新西兰屏幕历史的非常特定方面的小组讨论和讨论，以及之前举行的许多FHAANZ会议。相比之下，2015年活动邀请了有关屏幕研究，电影历史和主题的任何方面的参赛作品，包括：