Staff profile

Ms Anna Dzenis

Associate Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 327, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons - La Trobe University), MA (RMIT), Dip Ed (La Trobe University).

Area of study

Creative Arts
Cinema Studies

Brief profile

Anna Dzenis lectures in the Cinema Studies program. She teaches introductory screen literacy, screen criticism, world cinema, film history and theories of visuality. She has studied photography and cinema and brings these two disciplines together in her teaching. She is also one of the editors of the online journal of visual media and history Screening the Past. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast

Research interests

Film and Television

- French cinema

- Serial narratives

- Theories of visuality

Screen and Media Culture

- Photography and cinema

- Screen criticism

Teaching units

Introduction to Screen Analysis.
Screen Criticism.
Film History and Film Thought.
Contemporary World Cinema.
Single Film Research.

Recent publications

“In this Life’s Body” , Geoff Mayer & Keith Beattie (eds.)  24 Frames: Australia and New Zealand.  Wallflower Press, 2008.

Older publications

Michael Mann’s Cinema of Images, Screening The Past, Issue 14, 2002.

“The Sopranos”, Terrie Waddell & Annabel Rattigan (eds.) Lounge Critic: The Couch Theorist’s Companion, ACMI Publications, 2004.

“The Aquarium Syndrome. On the Films of Michael Mann.”  Jean Baptiste-Thoret (Translation, Anna Dzenis)
Billy Wilder: The Chiaroscuro Artist.  Senses of Cinema, Issue 19, March-April, 2002. 
 

Research projects

Currently working on a book project on the cinema of Michael Mann

Completing a PhD on television aesthetics.

“Public Enemies and Jacques Ranciere” for Michael Mann and Philosophy book. Steven Sanders, Aeon

Skoble & Barton Palmer (eds.) (forthcoming)

An audio commentary on Max Ophuls La Ronde, together with Rick Thompson.

Radical Beginnings special issue of Screening The Past.