Staff profile

Dr Terrie Waddell

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 218, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

B.A. (Deakin), Dip. Dramatic Arts (Victorian College of the Arts), Dip. Ed. (La Trobe), M.A. (La Trobe), PhD (La Trobe).

Area of study

Media Studies
Global Communications
Creative Arts
Cinema Studies
Australian Studies

Brief profile

Terrie Waddell is a senior lecturer in Media and Cinema Studies at La Trobe University (Australia). Her primary teaching and researching areas are: gender and identity in popular culture, film and television studies and analytical psychology. Terrie’s latest publication Wild/lives- Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen (Routledge, 2010) draws on myth, popular culture and post-Jungian approaches to trace the 'trickster' in contemporary film and television. By focusing on productions set in remote or isolated spaces – Deadwood, Grizzly Man, Lost, Solaris, The Biggest Loser, Amores Perros and Repulsion - the book explores the way in which key trickster-infused sites of transition reflect the psychological fragility of their willing and unwilling occupants. Previous book publications include: Mis/takes - Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction (Routledge, 2006); Lounge Critic - The Couch Theorist's Companion (co-editor, ACMI, 2004) produced in conjunction with The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the former Australian Film Commission; and Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness - Wrath, Sex, Crime (editor, Rodopi, 2003).

Initially trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, she worked as an actor early in her career before completing a doctorate on the link between Renaissance carnival/grotesquery and contemporary television comedy.

Research interests

Film and Television

- Film and television studies

Media Studies

- Gender and identity in popular culture

- Myth and story in popular culture – media and cinema

- Post-Jungian approaches to media and cinema

Teaching units

  • MST2RTM - Researching the Media.
  • MST2/3MAS - Media and the Spectacular.
  • MST2/3SAM - Sex and the Media.
  • MST4/5WIM - Gender on Screen.

Recent publications

Books

  • Waddell, T 2010, Wildlives: Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen, Routledge, London and New York.
  • Waddell, T 2006, Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction, Routledge, London and New York.
  • Waddell T & Rattigan, A (eds), 2004, Lounge Critic: The Couch Theorist’s Companion, ACMI, Melbourne.
  • Waddell, T (eds), 2003, Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness: Wrath, Sex, Crime, Rodopi, Amsterdam.

Book Chapters

  • Waddell, T  (2011) “The Rapture of Girlshine - Land, Sacrifice and Disavowal in Australian Cinema” in a forthcoming book to be published by Spring Publications as part of the new Analytical Psychology and Contemporary Culture series, title to be announced. (forthcoming)
  • Waddell, T. 2011 “Navel Gazing: Introversion/Extraversion and Australian Cinema”, in Luke Hockley and Christopher Hauke (Eds) Jung and Film ll - The Return, London and New York: Routledge (forthcoming)
  • Waddell, T 2010, ‘House’s Caduceus Crutch’ in: (eds), Leslie Gardner & Luke Hockley, House: The Wounded Healer on Television, Routledge, London and New York.
  • Waddell, T 2003, ‘The Female/Feline Morph: Myth, Media, Sex and the Bestial’ in (eds), Terrie Waddell, Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness: Wrath, Sex, Crime, Rodopi, Amsterdam‚ pp.75-96.
  • Waddell, T 2003, ‘The Not So Secret Life Of Us At Home And Away: Cashing In The Beach Culture’ in (eds), Allan Edwards‚ Keith Gilbert & James Skinner‚ Some Like it Hot: The Beach as a Cultural Dimension, Meyer and Meyer,Germany, pp. 40-57.

Older publications

Book Chapters

  • Waddell, T 2003, ‘Scrubbers: The Great Unwashed of Australian Cinema’ in (eds), Lisa French‚ Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia‚ Damned Publishing, Victoria, pp.183-95.
  • Waddell, T 2001, ‘We’re So Excited We Just Can’t Contain Ourselves: Ren, Stimpy and the Abject’ in (eds), Alice Mills & Jeremy Smith, Utter Silence: Voicing the Unspeakable, Peter Lang Publishing, New York, pp. 145-55.
  • Waddell, T 1999, ‘Revelling in Dis-Play: The Grotesque in Absolutely Fabulous’ in ed. Alice Mills, Seriously Weird: Papers on the Grotesque, Peter Lang Publishing, New York, pp. 207-23.

Journals

  • Waddell, T. 2009, ‘Trickster and the Delinquency of Lost’, in: Spring Journal: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, ‘Technology, Cyberspace, and Psyche’, 80: 171-86.
  • Waddell, T. 2003, ‘Filing the Last X’, Metro, 135: 204.
  • Waddell, T. 2002, ‘Female Sexuality in Advertising – how to whip moral panics into feeding frenzy’, Metro, 133: 224-9. Waddell,
  • T. 2001, ‘Playing with the Big Kids: the implications of imported advertising on Australian television’, Media International Australia, incorporating Culture and Policy, “Technoculture‚” 98: 129-42.
  • Waddell, T. 1998 ‘Dana Scully and Gillian Anderson: Unresolved Sexual Tension Without Mulder’, Metro, Number 117, pp.34-39.
  • Waddell, T. 1997 ‘Carving up the Psyche: Susan Streitfeld’s Female Perversions,” Metro, 111:39-42
  • Waddell, T. 1996 ‘To Moider Mother,’ Psychotherapy in Australia, 2:3: 56-57