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    The bridge

    May 05, 2019 2 minutes

    LISA FRENCH (RMIT UNIVERSITY)

    Associate Editor, Metro (2010–present) Contributor, Metro (1997–present)

    Reaching deeply into both academia and industry, Metro has been a bridge between the two for more than fifty years. It provides a unique and extremely important cultural record that, since 1963, has authoritatively documented the shifts and changes in Australian screen culture (which includes all the activities in the sector from

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