Cinema Studies Program
Staff Directory
| Assoc. Prof. Geoff Mayer |
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Reader + Associate Professor
Room: Hu2, 332
Tel: (03)9479 2042
Fax: (03)9479 1434
Email: g.mayer@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Melb., BCom Melb., DipEd Melb., MEd La Trobe, PhD La Trobe. |
Teaching Areas
CST2/3FNO: film noir: alienation and darkness in the cinema (not available 2009)
CST2/3MEM: melodrama and morality in the cinema (not available 2009)
Research Areas
Areas of particular academic interest include the classical Hollywood cinema, Australian and British cinemas, modes of film narration, melodrama, film noir and serial form.
Recent Publications - Books
Encyclopedia of Film Noir, Greenwood Press, (co-written with Brian McDonnell), 2007
24 Frames: Australia and New Zealand, Wallflower Press, London, (co-edited with Keith Beattie) 2007
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.
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, Shirmer Books, 2006.
Forthcoming
Val Guest, Manchester University Press, 2009
Other
Currently a consultant to Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Associated Editor for Refereed Articles - Metro.
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