Film and Television Research Focus
Research strengths in Film and Television Studies are focused around an international approach to the study of American, Asian and Australian cinema and television. Within these national and regional studies there is a particular research focus on historical forms and practices of film and television studies and the dynamic relationships between film and television histories, presents and futures.
Monash Film and Television Studies staff,
Dr Dean Williams Dr Con Verevis Dr Belinda Smaill Dr Therese Davis Dr Adrian Martin Mr David Hanan,
have internationally recognised expertise that contribute to research excellence in the following areas:
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Australian National Cinema
Members of FTVS have been involved in research projects on many facets of Australian cinema including the history of criticism of Australian film, indigenous and multicultural cinema, genre and modes of spectatorship.
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Australian Television
A strong focus within FTVS is the study of Australian television in relation to multicultural and indigenous representation and production, critical theory and television and new directions in the conceptualisation of television and history.
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Teen Film and Television
Within FTVS there is significant expertise in the area of teen film and television in Australian and America, especially the concerns of genre, historical representations of teenagers and perspectives on teen consumption.
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Documentary Film Theory and History
A strong focus within FTVS is the study of documentary in terms of the history of the genre, approaches to national culture and documentary, new conceptualisations of political cultural and documentary and theories of realism. The journal Studies in Documentary Cinema is edited by Deane Williams in FTVS.
- American Cinema
A key research strength in FTVS is the study of the diverse aspects of American cinema including contemporary and historical Hollywood film, independent cinema, film aesthetics and film remakes and sequels.
Head of Film & Television Studies
- Realist film theories
- Documentary film theory and history
- Australian film history
- Australian film and television
- Contemporary British filmmakers
- Siegfried Kracauer, John Grierson, Andre Bazin, Michael Winterbottom, Sean Penn, John Hughes, Chris Marker, Robert Flaherty.
Deputy Head of Film & Television Studies
Honours Coordinator
- Film theory and criticism
- Deleuze and cinema
- Contemporary American cinema
- Experimental film and video
- Film genres
- Film remakes and sequels'
- Diaspora in Australian Cinema
- Gender and Cinema
- Gender and Television
- Asian Australian Cinema
- Cultural Studies and Cinema
- Critical Theories of Race and Ethnicity
- Documentary Film
- Film and popular culture in South East Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand);
- Australian representations of Asia, in newsreels, documentary films and TV current affairs from 1930 to the present
- Indian cinema
- European and Asian cinema generally
- Third World Cinema
- Alternative distribution frameworks for film.
- Practice as Research
- Post Colonial Theory and Theories of Cultural Difference
- Australian Cinema
- Australian Television
- Australian Indigenous Cinema
- Spectatorship Theory
- Walter Benjamin and Film
- Women, Film and Feminist Film Theory
- Post-Nouvelle Vague French/Francophone Cinema: Eustache, Garrel, Doillon, Moullet, Carax, Grandrieux, Akerman, etc (considered separately or as a group)
- Film Criticism as Aesthetic and Cultural History: Durgnat, Perkins, Tailleur, Bazin, Farber, Rosenbaum, Elsaesser, Wood, etc.
- New and Traditional Understandings of Film Style (including Mise en scène, performance, rhythm, colour, lighting, editing, set design, etc)
- New and Traditional Understandings of Film Genre (especially musical, thriller, comedy, action), particularly in an international or trans-national context
- New Theories of Film, especially Figural Analysis (Brenez, Aumont, etc)
- Analysis and History of International Art Cinema and the Cinema of Poetry
- Film Theory and Contemporary Philosophy: Rancière, Agamben, Nancy, Schefer, Deleuze, Kracauer, Benjamin, Bloch, Auerbach, etc.
- Cinema and Cultural Studies, with particular reference to popular culture