Papers of Albert Moran
MSS 329
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Papers of Albert MoranCollection Identifier
MSS 329Inclusive date(s)
1980sExtent and Medium
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Collection Description
Research material gathered by author Albert Moran relating to the Australian and international publishing industry
Administrative / Biographical history
Academic, film critic, and author Albert Moran was born in Dublin in 1942. Moran has published several works on the film and publishing industries in Australia, including Inside Publishing : The Environments of the Publishing House (1990). He has been a professor in screen studies in the School of Humanities at Griffith University, and his works have been used in units of study at that university as well as several others. He is credited with helping pioneer the critical analysis of Australian film and television history, and established the field of global television format studies
References:
Austlit : Albert Moran https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A23150 retrieved 18 September 2020
Libraries Australia Name Authority Record : 36161523 https://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/search/display?dbid=auth&id=36161523 retrieved 18 September 2020
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
The papers of Albert Moran contain research materials on the Australian and international publishing/book industry related to his published works on the subject. These materials comprise book chapters, articles in newspapers, magazines and journals, privately or university commissioned reports or studies, and excerpts from various Commissions of Inquiry into the industry. Audiovisual material includes interviews with publishers, literary editors and writers recorded on audiocassettes
System of arrangement
The boxes contain briefly annotated copies of journal articles, newspaper and magazine articles, monographs and book chapters. This collection also consists of newspaper articles (Australian and overseas) from the 1980s with some annotation or creator's markings on them. Correspondence is minimal and where it does exist it has been put at the front of the relevant folder. Many folders contain materials that are not found elsewhere and these consist principally of photocopied sections of Commissions of Inquiry into the publishing industry, local government reports into libraries, publishers, and books, publishing, library and book statistics, book or publishing industry-related economic policy papers, and privately and university commissioned reports or papers. Moran's own file numbering system (where it exists) is listed at the beginning of the folder description
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This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
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Existence and Location of Orginals
Related and Separated Materials
Further material relating to Albert Moran is held in the AFI Research Collection at RMIT University in the Albert Moran Material Collection
Disclaimer
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.