Richard Maltby
Biographic Data
| ID | 601637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Maltby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Maltby |
| SIGNATURE | MALTBY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9353-4735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response
David Throsby puts forward a strong critique of our Policy Perspective “Counting Culture to Death” (2017). In it, he identifies aspects of the quality metrics dashboard Culture Counts of which we are suspicious. He considers our position to stem “from a well-known distrust of measurement in any form ... that quantification is the enemy of judgement”. This is inaccurate. We do not regard quantification per se as inimical.
Counting culture to death
Metrics-based approaches to understanding the value of culture imply homogeneity of artistic purpose, invite political manipulation and demand time, money and attention from cultural organisations without proven benefit. The system retailing as Culture Counts, a dashboard approach to quality measurement that emerged from Western Australia and is currently trialling in Australia, the US, the UK and Asia, serves to further abstract assessment proce…
Going to the Movies
Explorations in New Cinema History
Screen Education
With both Screen and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies recently celebrating significant birthdays with retrospective events and issues, screen studies has taken to addressing its own history as a practice and an academic discipline in what feels somewhere between an apologia and a midlife crisis.1 Terry Bolas's Screen Education is a useful addition to these histories, and to some extent a corrective to the heroic accounts of theoretical co…
To Prevent the Prevalent Type of Book
As a literary study in stark realism and exposition of animal passions running wild, the novel has considerable merit. . As a screen proposition, An American Tragedy, with its shameless wallowings in the sex gutters, its debauchery and insistent dwelling on the baser sides of human nature, would seem impossible of conversion into anything resembling wholesome or appealing entertainment for the majority of picture followers
The King of Kings and the Czar of All the Rushes
Journal Article The King of Kings and the Czar of All the Rushes: the propriety of the Christ story Get access Richard Maltby Richard Maltby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 31, Issue 2, Summer 1990, Pages 188–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/31.2.188 Published: 01 July 1990
Baby Face’, or How Joe Breen Made Barbara Stanwyck Atone for Causing the Wall Street Crash
Journal Article ‘Baby Face’, or How Joe Breen Made Barbara Stanwyck Atone for Causing the Wall Street Crash Get access Richard Maltby Richard Maltby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 27, Issue 2, March-April 1986, Pages 22–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.2.22 Published: 01 March 1986
Counting culture to death
Metrics-based approaches to understanding the value of culture imply homogeneity of artistic purpose, invite political manipulation and demand time, money and attention from cultural organisations without proven benefit. The system retailing as Culture Counts, a dashboard approach to quality measurement that emerged from Western Australia and is currently trialling in Australia, the US, the UK and Asia, serves to further abstract assessment proce…
Baby Face’, or How Joe Breen Made Barbara Stanwyck Atone for Causing the Wall Street Crash
Journal Article ‘Baby Face’, or How Joe Breen Made Barbara Stanwyck Atone for Causing the Wall Street Crash Get access Richard Maltby Richard Maltby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 27, Issue 2, March-April 1986, Pages 22–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.2.22 Published: 01 March 1986
Screen Education
With both Screen and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies recently celebrating significant birthdays with retrospective events and issues, screen studies has taken to addressing its own history as a practice and an academic discipline in what feels somewhere between an apologia and a midlife crisis.1 Terry Bolas's Screen Education is a useful addition to these histories, and to some extent a corrective to the heroic accounts of theoretical co…
To Prevent the Prevalent Type of Book
As a literary study in stark realism and exposition of animal passions running wild, the novel has considerable merit. . As a screen proposition, An American Tragedy, with its shameless wallowings in the sex gutters, its debauchery and insistent dwelling on the baser sides of human nature, would seem impossible of conversion into anything resembling wholesome or appealing entertainment for the majority of picture followers
The King of Kings and the Czar of All the Rushes
Journal Article The King of Kings and the Czar of All the Rushes: the propriety of the Christ story Get access Richard Maltby Richard Maltby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 31, Issue 2, Summer 1990, Pages 188–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/31.2.188 Published: 01 July 1990
Baby Face’, or How Joe Breen Made Barbara Stanwyck Atone for Causing the Wall Street Crash
Journal Article ‘Baby Face’, or How Joe Breen Made Barbara Stanwyck Atone for Causing the Wall Street Crash Get access Richard Maltby Richard Maltby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 27, Issue 2, March-April 1986, Pages 22–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.2.22 Published: 01 March 1986
The King of Kings and the Czar of All the Rushes
Journal Article The King of Kings and the Czar of All the Rushes: the propriety of the Christ story Get access Richard Maltby Richard Maltby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 31, Issue 2, Summer 1990, Pages 188–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/31.2.188 Published: 01 July 1990
To Prevent the Prevalent Type of Book
As a literary study in stark realism and exposition of animal passions running wild, the novel has considerable merit. . As a screen proposition, An American Tragedy, with its shameless wallowings in the sex gutters, its debauchery and insistent dwelling on the baser sides of human nature, would seem impossible of conversion into anything resembling wholesome or appealing entertainment for the majority of picture followers
Screen Education
With both Screen and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies recently celebrating significant birthdays with retrospective events and issues, screen studies has taken to addressing its own history as a practice and an academic discipline in what feels somewhere between an apologia and a midlife crisis.1 Terry Bolas's Screen Education is a useful addition to these histories, and to some extent a corrective to the heroic accounts of theoretical co…
Explorations in New Cinema History
Going to the Movies
Response
David Throsby puts forward a strong critique of our Policy Perspective “Counting Culture to Death” (2017). In it, he identifies aspects of the quality metrics dashboard Culture Counts of which we are suspicious. He considers our position to stem “from a well-known distrust of measurement in any form ... that quantification is the enemy of judgement”. This is inaccurate. We do not regard quantification per se as inimical.
Counting culture to death
Metrics-based approaches to understanding the value of culture imply homogeneity of artistic purpose, invite political manipulation and demand time, money and attention from cultural organisations without proven benefit. The system retailing as Culture Counts, a dashboard approach to quality measurement that emerged from Western Australia and is currently trialling in Australia, the US, the UK and Asia, serves to further abstract assessment proce…
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