David Martin-Jones

Sep 20, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | David Martin-Jones |Roger Franklin |Mervyn F. Bendle

At 75, I have achieved 'old age'. I welcome it and am glad about it and, with some reservations, intend to keep on growing olderSep 21 202410 minsA Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians.

Oct 11, 2023 | euppublishing.com | Dominic Lash |Proposal Guidelines |David Martin-Jones |David Sorfa

“Film”, “philosophy”, and “poetry” are surely among the most contested words in the language. Each category has been interpreted so as to exclude or marginalise things that, in other interpretations, would be central instances. If digital cinema is a fundamentally new form, for example, then Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite (2018) is something other than a film.

May 14, 2023 | spectator.co.uk | David Martin-Jones

You’ve probably never heard of Abergynolwyn, which sits in the Dysynni valley in Merioneth in Wales. The village, established in the nineteenth century to house workers at the nearby Bryn Eglwys slate quarry, is home to just 400 people. But now Abergynolwyn has found its name besmirched by tenuous links to the slave trade. Abergynolwyn falls within the jurisdiction of Gwynedd council, which manages ‘the slate landscape’ on behalf of Unesco.