Humanities and Social Sciences

Cinema Studies Program

Staff Directory

Teaching Areas

CST2/3VAC violence and the cinema (2nd semester 2009)
CST4/5IAM: issues and methods (1st semester 2009)
CST2/3ALC: experimental cinema (n/a 2009)
CST2/3GES genre studies (n/a 2009)
CST2/3DOC documentary film (2nd semester 2009)

Research Areas
Areas of particular academic interest include film aesthetics and philosophy, screen violence, and theories of cinema experience.

Publications
Book:
This Wounded Cinema, this Wounded Life: Violence and Utopia in The Films of Sam Peckinpah, Praeger, Connecticut, London 2004

Book Chapters:
"Chopper", The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand. Keith Beattie and Geoff Mayer (eds), London, Wallflower Press, 2007

"El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero", Syoer/Heroes. Wendy Haslem, Chris Mackie and Angela Ndalianis (eds), New Academic Publishing, Washington (Reprint April 2007)

"Ikiro: To Live", Commissioned essay book for the Directors Suite DVD release of Ikiru by MadMan, 2006

"The Auteur as Star: Cinematic Violence and Sam Peckinpah" in Stars in Our Eyes - The Star Phenomenon and the Contemporary Era, Angela Ndalianis and Charlotte Henry (eds.), Greenwood Press, Connecticut, 2002

Articles:
Murray, G. "Representations of the Body in Pain and the Cinema Experience in Torture-Porn," Jump Cut: A Review of Media. 50 (2008) (ISSN 0146-5546.00) http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/TortureHostel2/index.html

"El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero", Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, No 10, 2006-2007
(ISSN 1447-4905) http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au/

"The Last Place in The World ... A review of Far from Heaven", Senses of Cinema On-line E-Journal, No 25, March-April 2003 (ISSN 1443-4059) http://www.sensesofcinema.com

"This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life", Special Effects/Special Affects: Technologies of the Screen - A Symposium, Senses of the Cinema, No. 5, April 2000.
(ISSN 1443-4059) http://www.sensesofcinema.com

"Hana-bi: A Reckoning", Metro Magazine 118, 1999

"Cape Fear: Punishment and Salvation", Metro Magazine 90, Winter, 1992

Encyclopaedia Entry:
"Sam Peckinpah 21/2/1925 - 28/12/1984", Senses of Cinema 20, May-June 2002 (ISSN 1443-4059) http://www.sensesofcinema.com

Book Reviews:
Review of "Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde", Freid, L. (ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000 Screening the Past 12, 2001 (ISSN 1328-9756) http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/index.html

Cinematheque Annotation:
"Cross of Iron", Senses of Cinema 16, September-October 2001. (ISSN 1443-4059) http://www.sensesofcinema.com

Conference Papers & Invited Lectures:
Invited Lecturer - "Representations of the Body in Pain and the Cinema Experience in Torture-Porn," for "Under Construction", Film and TV Studies Research seminar, Monash University, VIC Australia. 2008

"Post 9/11 and the Escalation of Screen Violence", 7th Global Conference, Violence and the Context of Hostility. Budapest, Hungary. 6 May 2008.

"Images of Torture, Images of Terror: Post 9/11 and the Escalation of Screen Violence," Rhizomes IV: Power, Violence, Language Conference. School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies University of Queensland. QLD Australia. 14 February 2008.

2007 "Icon Image and Transformation in Sergei Eisenstein's Films", Screen Aesthetics Conference, Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton, UK Saturday 23 June

2006 "History, Form and Legacy: Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico", Telling Stories: Cinema, History & Experience. X111 Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. Friday 17th November. Monash University and RMIT University, Melbourne

2005 "El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero", Holy Men in Tights, Superheroes Conference, Friday 9th June, The Cinema Studies Program, University of Melbourne & ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image)

2001 "Rituals of Violence and Enchantment", Fifth Congress of Americas. Popular Culture Section, Thursday 18th October. University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico

2000 "This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life", Special Effects/Special Affects: Technologies of the Screen - A Symposium, Saturday 25th March, The Cinema Studies Program, University of Melbourne

1999 "This Wounded Cinema: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah", Presentation, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne

1998 "Violence and Utopia: An Intimate Relationship", Departmental Paper, Fine Arts, University of Melbourne