Staff profile

Dr Hester Joyce

Senior Lecturer, Bachelor or Creative Arts

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 324, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD (Auckland), MA (1st ) BA

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Film Institute, Australian Writers Guild

Area of study

Creative Writing
Creative Arts
Cinema Studies

Brief Profile

Hester lectures in Cinema Studies, Creative Arts and Industries.  She has professional credits in acting, writing and directing in theatre and in acting, script editing and consulting in film and television. Research interests include scriptwriting theory, policy and practice; scriptwriting; screenplay narrative, aesthetics and formal analysis; creative project assessment; writing drama.  She has published on screenwriting policy and practice and national cinemas/indigenous cinema in Metro, Journal of Australasian Cinema, Colloquy, and Screening the Past and has contributed chapters to the anthologies The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand, World Storytelling and the Cinema.

Research interests

Creative Writing

- Screenwriting

- Script Development

Film and Television

- Creative Production

Teaching Units

HUS1PWR - Professional Writing: Words in Action. CST3CIP - Creative Industries Research. CST3SED - Script Development.

Recent Publications

  • Joyce, H 2010, ‘Toanga (Maori treasures): Maori Storytelling in the Cinema of Aotearoa/New Zealand.’ World Storytelling and the Cinema Wallflower Press (ed) Lina Khatib (DEST- B1).
  • Joyce, H & Wilson, S 2009, ‘Bad Form: Contemporary Cinema’s Turn to the Perverse’.  David Lynch: Lost Highway (1997); Lars von Trier: Breaking the Waves (1996).’ Colloquy Issue 18  http://colloquy.monash.edu.au/issue018/index.html   (DEST- C1).
  • Joyce, H 2009, ‘Out from Nowhere: Pakeha anxieties in Ngati (Barclay 1987), Once Were Warriors (Tamahori, 1994) and Whalerider (Caro, 2002)’. Studies in Australasian Cinema 2009:1 (in press) (DEST- C1)

Older Publications

Research projects

Screenplay adaptation, New Zealand Screen Policy, Life Writing/Screen Production