Global Utilities

Cinema Studies Program

Research

Dr Felicity Collins
Australian National Cinema; Screen Comedy and local, national and post-national identities; Screen Memory and the politics of spectatorship.

Ms Anna Dzenis
Television, narrative, film criticism, cinesthetics and theories of visuality, film style, French cinema.

Dr Gabrielle Murray
Areas of particular academic interest include film aesthetics, screen violence, and theories of cinema experience.

Dr Hester Joyce
National cinemas; New Zealand cinema; scriptwriting theory, policy and practice; scriptwriting; screenplay narrative, aesthetics and formal analysis, creative project assessment.

Mr Rolando Caputo
European cinema, particularly Italian and French, both art film and popular genres. Auteurs of interest - Antonioni, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Godard, Robbe-Grillet, Bunuel. Genres - Italian Western, Giallos/thrillers, sexploitation, Genre theory, Film aesthetics and philosophy, Screenplay analysis.

Assoc Prof Geoff Mayer
Areas of particular academic interest include the classical Hollywood cinema, Australian and British cinemas, modes of film narration, melodrama and film noir.

Mr Harry Kirchner
Screenwriting, script editing and development, Australian cinema since 1975, production paths for low budget features, digital theatrical exhibition.

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Last Updated: 7 February, 2008