AustLit

'Welcome to this special issue on ‘Re-evaluating the Royal Commission into the Australian Moving Picture Industry, 1927–1928’. Although nearly 90 years have passed since that Royal Commission, the concerns it addressed remain relevant today: how to protect the local film industry, and how to regulate the dominance of American movies. It is perhaps this reason as to why researchers, scholars, students and teachers keep returning to the Commission as a way to make sense of the complexities that continue to define the Australian cinema industry.' (Author's introduction)