Staff profile

Dr Gabrielle Murray

Senior Lecturer, Media and Cinema Studies - Honours & Postgraduate

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 326, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons -La Trobe), MA (NYU), PhD (Melbourne).

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Film Institute

Area of study

Cinema Studies
Creative Arts

Brief Profile

Gabrielle Murray continues to develop her work on the sensual and intellectual complexities of film. Her research draws on recent and classical film theory, while taking a transcultural approach to the cinema. She publishes in the areas of phenomenology, film and philosophy, and aesthetics, with a particular focus on screen violence and utopian impulses. Her current projects deal with screen violence post 9/11 and the aesthetics of torture. Recent postgraduate completions include theses on the comic–book affect in contemporary cinema, performance and reception in the celebrity portrait film, the woman warrior (nuxia) in Hong Kong and Malaysian cinema, the cosmopolitics of magical realism, and ethnicity in contemporary gangster film.

Research interests

Film and Television

- Film Aesthetics

Screen and Media Culture

- Screen Violence

- Theories of Cinema Experience

Teaching Units

  • CST2/3DOC - Documentary Cinema.
  • CST2/3ALC - Experimental Cinema.
  • CST2/3GES - Genre Studies.
  • CST2/3VAC - Violence and the Cinema.
  • CST4/5IAM - Issues and Methods.

Recent Publications

  • Murray G, (2011) “When Violence is an Axe and Romance is Dark: An Interview with Catherine Breillat”, Senses of Cinema. 58, http://www.sensesofcinema.com
  • Murray G (2010) “Fact and Fiction: The Iraq War Film in Absence”, Screening the Past. 29 http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/index.html
  • Murray, G (2009), ‘Knowing Icons and Transforming Experience’, Sergei Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico!’, Senses of Cinema. 52, October 2009.  http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2009/52/
  • Murray, G (2009), ‘Post 9/11 and Screen Violence’, Understanding Violence: Contexts and Portrayals. Eds, Marika Guggisberg and David Weir, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009, 3-14.
  • Murray, G (2008), ‘Representations of the Body in Pain and the Cinema Experience in Torture-Porn’, Jump Cut: A Review of Media. 50 http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/TortureHostel2/index.html
  • Murray, G (2007), ‘El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero’, Super/Heroes. Wendy Haslem, Chris Mackie and Angela Ndalianis (eds), Washington, New Academic Publishing, 51-64.
  • Murray, G (2007), ‘Chopper’, The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand. Keith Beattie and Geoff Mayer (eds), London, Wallflower Press, 185-194.
  • Murray, G (2006), "Ikiro: To Live", Commissioned essay book for the Directors Suite DVD release of Ikiru by MadMan, 2006.
  • Murray, G (2004), This Wounded Cinema, this Wounded Life: Violence and Utopia in The Films of Sam Peckinpah, Praeger, Connecticut, London.

Older Publications

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

Research projects

Neo-Burlesque and Images of Feminity Images of Terror, Images of Torture: Post 9/11 and Screen Violence