ABSTRACT

This article focuses upon the context within which much of Tom O’Regan’s early work took place, and which this work helped to frame. The importance of a particular formation of cultural nationalism to the beginnings of media and cultural studies in Australia is no longer front of mind for most of us today as we confront the challenges of a dramatically reconfigured transnational media landscape. However, it was particularly important to the development of these fields over the 1980s and 1990s. Initially most closely collected with the case being made for government support of the resurgent Australian film industry, it also became crucial to what was a distinctive field of concentration of work in Australian media studies: the link between a critical media studies and an interest in the formation of cultural policy in the national interest. The article discusses this tendency in, and its influence upon, Tom O’Regan’s pioneering contribution to Australian film, media and cultural studies, before turning to the more recent shifts that took place in his work as it went beyond cultural nationalism to engage with the emerging issues around the rise of the platform.

摘要

本文重点介绍 Tom O'Regan 的大部分早期工作发生的背景，以及这项工作有助于构建的背景。当我们面临急剧重构的跨国媒体格局的挑战时，文化民族主义的特殊形成对澳大利亚媒体和文化研究的开始的重要性不再是我们今天大多数人的首要考虑。然而，这对 1980 年代和 1990 年代这些领域的发展尤为重要。最初收集最密切的案例是为政府支持复兴的澳大利亚电影业而制作的案例，它对于澳大利亚媒体研究中一个独特的工作集中领域也变得至关重要：批判媒体研究与对媒体的兴趣之间的联系制定符合国家利益的文化政策。