Cultural criticism and policy

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Abstract:

To coin a well-turned phrase, writing Framing Culture: Criticism and Policy in Australia seemed like a good idea at the time. I was employed outside the academy as a researcher and policy analyst at the Communications Law Centre, a public interest advocacy unit working at the interface between community groups, unions and researchers on the one hand, and government and the bureaucracy on the other, to advance public interest inputs and outcomes in communications policy. While I had been appointed in part because of my background in academic cultural analysis of film and television, to my increasing dismay I found that the protocols of such analysis were often not simply different from, but at odds with the work of public interest advocacy. As one of my co-workers at the Centre said when asked for her thoughts on the relations between cultural critique and policy, and my prospects for writing a book about them – ‘not many and not much’.

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