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ABSTRACT
A personal appreciation of the work and legacy of Tom O’Regan, focusing on his 1994 essay “Two or Three Things I Know About Meaning”. Although O’Regan’s work is often described as being concerned primarily with social discourses and institutional contexts in the landscape of audiovisual media, he also paid close attention to the mechanisms of film and TV texts. His view of meaning was complex and multi-factorial, reflecting both his intellectual approach and his personal temperament.
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Adrian Martin
Adrian Martin is an Australian-born film & arts critic and audiovisual essayist now based in Spain, lecturer at the Elías Querejeta Film School in San Sebastián, and Adjunct Professor of Film and Screen Studies, Monash University. He is the author of nine books including Filmmakers Thinking (EQZE, 2021), Mysteries of Cinema (University of Western Australia Publishing, 2020), Mise en scène and Film Style (Palgrave, 2014), Last Day Every Day (Punctum, 2012), ¿Qué es el cine moderno? (Uqbar, 2008), The Mad Max Movies(Currency, 2003), Once Upon a Time in America (BFI, 1998) and Phantasms(Penguin, 1994). He is a regular contributor of DVD audio commentaries internationally, and his archive covering 40 years of work is http://www.filmcritic.com.au.