Humanities and Social Sciences

Media Studies Program

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Teaching units
MST1CCO Constructing Communication
MST2/3MAS Media and the Spectacular
MST2/3SAM Sex and the Media
MST4/5WIM Gender on Screen

Terrie Waddell researches issues of gender and the media, screen cultures and analytical psychology. Her second book on television, film and analytical psychology, Wild/lives: Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen, is due for release in October 2009. Previous book publications include Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction and the co-edited Lounge Critic: The Couch Theorist's Companion, produced in conjunction with The Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the former Australian Film Commission. Originally trained as an actor she has worked in film, television and theatre.

Publications:

Books
(2009) Wildlives: Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen, London and New York: Routledge
(2006) Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction, London and New York: Routledge
Ed with Annabel Rattigan (2004), 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: Women and the Moving Image 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
(2009) “Trickster and the Delinquency of Lost”, in: Spring Journal: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, ‘Technology, Cyberspace, and Psyche’, vol. 80, pp. 171-86.
(2002), “Female Sexuality in Advertising – how to whip moral panics into feeding frenzy,” Metro, Number 133‚ May, pp. 224-9.
(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. 129-42.
(2003), “Filing the Last X,” Metro, Number 135, p. 204.
(2001), “Pip Karmel – not what you’d call an Ally McBeal fan,” Metro, No. 129/130, pp. 222-5.
(2000), “What’s Wrong with Scandal?” Australian Screen Education, No. 23, pp. 12-13.

Conference Papers
(2009) July 9-12, Association of Jungian Studies, Paper Presented: “The liminal space as a key narrative device in television ‘reality’ and drama: transgression and wannabe transformation.” Cardiff, Wales.
(2008) November 19- 21, Television and the National Conference, Paper Presented: “Random Acts of Soiling ~ Deadwood”, Melbourne, Australia.
(2007) September 20-21, The Uses of Subjective Experience: A Weekend of Conversations Between ANZSJA Analysts and Academics Who Work with Jung’s Ideas, The Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts, Melbourne, Australia, invited panellist.
(2006) July 6-9, Psyche and Imagination A Multidisciplinary Academic Conference of Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies, Paper Presented: “Detention Centers and the Developing World as Sites of Celebrity ‘Compassion’: a study of the trickster paradigm in ABC television’s We Can be Heroes”, The University of Greenwich, London, UK.
(2005) July 7-10, 2nd International Academic Conference of the IAAP and the IAJS, Paper Presented: “Mulholland Drive: Coniunctio, Mortificatio, Silencio”, Texas, USA.
(2004) 10-12 May, 2nd Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Paper Presented: “The Undead, Psychopomps and Infanticide: Trickster in The Others”, Budapest, Hungary.
(2004) 13-15 May, 1st global Conference: The Erotic, Paper Presented: “Anima Disavowal and Loss: Intimacy and Female Perversions”, Budapest, Hungary.
(2003) March 21-26, 4th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, Paper Presented: “Bali: Cashing in on Human Interest”, Anglo-American College Prague, Czech Republic.
(2002) March 15-20, 3rd Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, Paper Presented: “The Contemporary Female/Feline Morph: Advertising, evil and enigmatic sexuality”, Anglo-American College Prague, Czech Republic.
(2001) May, 26 Psychoanalysis/Gender/Cinema, Cinema Studies Program, FACSA, University of Melbourne & Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis, Paper Presented: “Boys Don’t Cry: Trickster and Dionysos“, The University of Melbourne.
(2001) July 24-27 Global Village or Global Image?, The Inaugural International Media Conference, Paper Presented: “Global Friendly Advertising on Australian Television: Regulation, Monitoring, Impact”, Institute of Education, London, UK.
(2001) July 5-8, Thinking Beyond Australia/Beyond Australian Literature, The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (A.S.A.L.), University of Melbourne/La Trobe University, Paper Presented: “The Invisibility of the Female Grotesque in Popular Australian Fiction: Film, television and literature”, Trades Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
(2000) December 4, Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, On the Beach, Paper Presented: “Battler-tollop-mole-slut-bogan: The beach babes you don’t see”, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia.
(1998) July 10-13, Console-ing Passions Conference, Paper Presented: “The Scully/Anderson Dyad: Unresolved Sexual Tension”, UWS Nepean, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
(1997) December 3-5, Fear, Taboo and Contemporary Culture, Paper Presented: “The Female Grotesque in Absolutely Fabulous”, The University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
(1997) December 4, Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, Subject to Change: Reorienting Cultural Studies, Paper Presented: “Cronenberg’s Crash and Diana’s Black Mercedez: Our hunger for sacrifice and escape”, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
(1996) June 17-19, Women in motion Conference, Paper Presented: “Go for it Eddy: Female friendship in Absolutely Fabulous”, VCA, Victoria, Australia.