Humanities and Social Sciences

Media Studies Program

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Dr. Terrie Waddell lectures in the subjects 'Constructing Communication', 'Sex and the Media', 'Women (gender) in Media' and 'Media and the Spectacular'. Her research interests include the representation of gender in popular culture, carnival, the grotesque, and analytical psychology.

Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction has just been released by Routledge and her previous co-edited publication, Lounge Critic: The Couch Theorist's Companion was produced in conjunction with The Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the Australian Film Commission. Her current research project Wild/lives, will be Terrie's second book on television, film and analytical psychology. Originally trained as an actor (VCA) she has worked in film, educational video, television, theatre and radio.

Recent publications include:

Books

(2006) Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction, London and New York: Routledge

Ed (2004) with Annabel Rattigan, Lounge Critic: The Couch Theorist's Companion, Melbourne: ACMI

Ed (2003) Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness: Wrath, Sex, Crime, Amsterdam, Rodopi

Chapters in Books

(2003) "The Female/Feline Morph: Myth, Media, Sex and the Bestial" in: Terrie Waddell (Ed), Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness: Wrath, Sex, Crime, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 75-96

(2003) "The Not So Secret Life Of Us At Home And Away: Cashing in on Beach Culture" in: Allan Edwards, Keith Gilbert and James Skinner (Eds), Some Like it Hot: The Beach as a Cultural Dimension, Germany: Meyer and Meyer, pp. 40-57

(2003) "Scrubbers: The Great Unwashed of Australian Cinema" in: Lisa French (Ed), Womenvision: A Century of Women in Australia , Victoria: Damned Publishing, pp. 183-195

(2001) "We're so Excited We Just Can't Contain Ourselves: Ren, Stimpy and the Abject" in: Alice Mills and Jeremy Smith (Eds), Utter Silence: Voicing the Unspeakable, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, pp. 145-155

(1999) "Reveling in Dis-Play: The Grotesque in Absolutely Fabulous" in: Alice Mills (Ed), Seriously Weird: Papers on the Grotesque, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, pp. 207-223

Journals

(2004) "Bali: Cashing in on Human Interest: in: Daniel E Keen & Pamela Rossi Keen (Eds), Considering Evil and Human Wickedness, e-journal, v3, http://www.interdisciplinary.net/publishing/idp/ebooks.html

"The contemporary Female/Feline Morph: advertising, evil and enigmatic sexuality", Perspectives of Evil and Human Wickedness: an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary journal (E-journal, in press)

(2003) "Filing the Last X", Metro, Number 135, p. 204

(2002) "Female Sexuality in Advertising - how to whip moral panics into feeding frenzy", Metro, Number 133, may, pp. 224-229

(2001) "Playing with the Big Kids: the implications of imported advertising on Australian television", Media international Australia, incorporating Culture and Policy, "Technoculture," Number 98, February, pp. 129-142

(2001) "Pip Karmel - not what you'd call an Ally McBeal fan", Metro, Number 129/130, pp. 222-225

(2000) "What's Wrong with Scandal?", Australian Screen Education, Issue 23, pp. 12-13