Humanities and Social Sciences

Cinema Studies Program

Staff Directory

Teaching Areas
CST22/32ANF: animated film (2nd semester 2006)
CST22/32FCR: film criticism (2nd semester 2006)

Research Areas
American film, animation, comedy, film criticism, mise en scene, narrative, Silent cinema, sound and soundtrack.

Publications
"Elsaesser and Buckland, Studying Contemporary American Film", Media Information Australia 106, February 2003 (book review).
"The Getaway", Senses of Cinema, 2004.
"Cabin in the Sky", Senses of Cinema 28, September-October 2003.
"Kansas City", Senses of Cinema 28.
"Prest-O Change-O and Caveman Inki", Senses of Cinema 28
"French Cancan", Senses of Cinema 27, July-August 2003.
"Andrew de Toth, Luke Short, Ramrod: style, source, genre", Senses of Cinema 25, March-April 2003.
"He and She: Weimar Screwballwerk", Senses of Cinema 22, September-October 2003.
"Chuck Jones", Senses of Cinema 19, April 2002.
"Joseph H. Lewis" Senses of Cinema 10, June 2000.
Guest editor, Robert Aldrich special issue, Screening the Past, 10, June 2000.
"Robert Aldrich: An Independent Career" Screening the Past, 10, June 2000.
"Pickup on South Street", Senses of Cinema 8, July-August 2000.
"Dirty Harry", Senses of Cinema 6, May 2000.
T. Hunter & R.J. Thompson, "Eastwood Direction" in Robert E Kapsis and Kathie Coblentz, eds. Clint Eastwood Interviews, University of Mississippi Press, 1999. The same article appeared that year in Japanese translation in Clint Eastwood. Tokyo: E/M Books, vol. 7.
Entries for "Armstrong, Kerry"; "Babe"; "Blinky Bill"; "Dot and the Kangaroo"; "Ferngully: The Last Rainforest"; "Grendel, Grendel, Grendel"; "Gross, Yoram"; Petty, Bruce"; and "Stitt, Alexander" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Cinema, Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1999, edited by Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer & Ina Bertrand.
"Norman McLaren", Metro, 120, 1999.
"La Chiennne", Metro, 119, 1999.
"Shock Corridor", Metro, 118, 1999.
"Pickpocket" in Treasures From the French Embassy Collection, Australian Film Institute, 1999.
My article "Termites: Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson" was included in the 1998 Expanded Edition of Farber's Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies, New York: Da Capo Press - the only article in the collection not written by Farber or Farber and Patterson.

Other
2004: incoming editor, Screening the Past.
2002: consultant to ACMI re: their animated film collection.
Currently serving on the editorial boards and/or boards of referees for Metro, Senses of Cinema. In the past few years I have organised and/or presented public events for The Melbourne Age Writers' Festival, the Australian Film Institute, the Melbourne International Film Festival, the "Outlawed" conference, and the Australian Screenwriters conference.