Staff profile

Dr Felicity Collins

Associate Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 321, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Communication – NSWIT), Phd (UTS).

Area of study

Creative Arts
Cinema Studies
Australian Studies

Brief profile

Felicity Collins works on the politics of subjectivity and spectatorship in the visual culture of modernity. Earlier work looked at nation, gender and genre in Australian cinema. Current project is a comparative study of settler colonial cinemas and anti-colonial ethics. Recent postgraduate completions include doctoral theses on motifs of innocence in the films of Peter Weir, the woman warrior or nuxia in Hong Kong and Malaysian cinema, and the cosmopolitics of magical realism.

Research interests

Australian History

- Colonial Violence and Postcolonial Ethics

Creative Writing

- Historical Fiction, Memory, Allegory

Film and Television

- Australian Film and Television Comedy

Media Studies

- Gender, Modernity, Spectatorship

Screen and Media Culture

- Australian National Cinema

Teaching units

CAC2/3 - Australian Cinema.
CST2/3CLH - Imagining Hollywood.
CST2SAC - Storytelling and Cinema.
FAI4/5 - Film and Interpretation.

Recent publications

Collins, F 2010, ‘After the Apology: Re-framing Violence and Suffering’, in First Australians, Australia and Samson and Delilah’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 24.1, 65-77. 

 

Collins, F 2009, ‘Resisting the Ethical Violence of Coercive Aboriginality: David Gulpilil’, in Postcolonial Celebrity, ed. Clarke R, Cambridge Scholars Press, 189-207.

 

Collins, F 2009, ‘Wogboys and the Australian National Type’, in Diasporas of Australian Cinema, ed. Murawska R et al. Intellect, 73-82.

 

Collins, F 2009, ‘Larrikin Ockers and Decent Blokes: The national type in Australian film comedy’, in Creative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Sarwal A et al. Delhi: SSS Publications, 154-165.

 

Collins, F 2008, ‘History, Myth and Allegory in Australian Cinema’, Trames, Memory Between Disciplines, 12.3, 276-286. 

 

Collins, F 2008, ‘The Ethical Violence of Celebrity Chat: Russell Crowe and David Gulpilil’, Social Semiotics, 18.2, 191-204.

 

Collins, F 2008, 'Historical Fiction and the Allegorical Truth of Colonial Violence in The Proposition', Cultural Studies Review, 14.1, 55-71.

 

Collins, F, Turnbull, S & Bye, S 2007, 'Aunty Jack, Norman Gunston and ABC Television Comedy in the 1970s', Australian Cultural History, 26, 131-152. 

 

Collins, F 2007, ‘Kenny: The Return of the Decent Aussie Bloke in Australian Film Comedy’, Metro, 154, 84-90.

 

Collins, F 2007, ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’, in The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand, ed. Mayer G et al. London: Wallflower Press, 119-27.

 

Collins, F, Davis, T 2006, ’Disputing History, Remembering Country’, in The Tracker and Rabbit-Proof Fence’, Australian Historical Studies, 37.128, 35-54.

 

Collins, F 2006, ‘A Proper Sorry Film: Call Me Mum’, Metro, 150, 44-51.

 

Collins, F 2006, ‘The Hedonistic Modernity of Sydney in They’re a Weird Mob’, Senses of Cinema, 40. 

Older publications

Collins, F Davis, T 2004, Australian Cinema After Mabo, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Collins, F 1999, The Films of Gillian Armstrong, Melbourne: The Moving Image/ATOM.
 

Research projects

Anti-Colonial Ethics and Screen Violence
Australian Cinema and the History Wars
Australian Screen Comedy