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School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry
Staff Directory
| Dr Geoff Mayer |
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Position: Head of School
Room: HU2 334
Tel: +61 3 9479 2042
Fax: +61 3 0479 1434
Email: G.Mayer@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA BCom, DipEd (Melb) BEd MEd PhD (LaT)
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Teaching Areas
Classical Hollywood cinema
Storytelling and the cinema: understanding narrative film technique
Film noir: alienation and darkness in the cinema
Melodrama and morality in the cinema
Research Areas
Areas of particular academic interest include the classical Hollywood cinema, Australian and British cinemas, modes of film narration, melodrama and film noir.
Recent Publications - Books
- Roy Ward Baker, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2004.
- Guide to British Cinema, Greenwood Press, Connecticut, 2003.
- Oxford Companion to Australian Cinema, (co-edited with Brian McFarlane and Ina Bertrand) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.
- 24 Frames: Australia and New Zealand, Wallflower Press, London, (co-edited with Keith Beattie) - currently in the editing stage.
Refereed Articles
- 'The Phantom Stockman: Lee Robinson, Chips Rafferty and the Film Industry that Nobody Wanted', in Metro, Number 142, 2004.
- 'December 7th, 1941 - a Date which will Live in Infamy' in Australian Screen Education, Number 28, 2002.
- 'Closure Without Climax: Percy and Rose in Passion', in Metro, Number 121, 1999.
Chapters
- 'Classical Hollywood Cinema and New Hollywood Cinema' in Roberta E. Pearson and Philip Simpson (eds) Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory, Routledge, London, 2001.
- A 4,000 word entry on 'Australian Cinema' for the Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, Editor in Chief: Barry Keith Grant, New York, The Gale group, to be published in 2005.
Current Projects
Film Noir, Greenwood Press, Connecticut, to be published 2007.
Other
Currently a consultant to Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Associated Editor for Refereed Articles - Metro.
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