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ItemNo Preview Available‘Past, Present, Future Perfect: Paradigms of History in Medievalism Studies’, Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 25.2 (2008): 58-79.(ANZAMEMS (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies), 2008)
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ItemFrom Neo-Baroque to Neo-Baroques?(Canadian Association of Hispanists, 2008)El presente artÃculo argumenta que el "barroco" puede ser entendido como un estado transhistórico que se extiende más allá del siglo XVII enfocándose no solo en escritores e intelectuales que asi lo han entendido, sino tomando ejemplos provenientes del campo de la literatura, la pintura, la arquitectura o el cine, tales como zoótropos y linternas mágicas, el arte de la revolución vanguardista de inicios del siglo XX, el estilo barroco presente en los inicios de la industria de Hollywood o la abierta aplicación polÃtica y crÃtica de estrategias barrocas adoptadas por escritores españoles y latinoamericanos. El artÃculo culmina en nuestro propio tiempo, sosteniendo que el contexto urbano y de entretenimiento contemporáneo combina lo visual, lo audible y lo textual en formas que se asemejan al dinamismo de las formas barrocas del siglo XVII, pero expresadas de manera tecnológica y culturalmente diferente que, ya sean a través de pelÃculas o series de televisión, exposiciones o movimientos musicales, son resultudo de trasformaciones culturales y sistémicas asociadas con la posmodernidad.
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ItemGenevieve Grieves(un Projects Inc., 2006)
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ItemHaywood’s re-appropriation of the amatory heroine in Betsy Thoughtless(University of Iowa, 2006)Eliza Haywood’s domestic fiction, epitomized by The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751), does not reject the modes of her earlier amatory fiction work (such as her 1724 Fantomina), but instead dialectically incorporates it. By considering both Pamela and Betsy Thoughtless in the context of Haywood’s amatory fiction of the 1720s, this paper argues that the struggle to appropriate the narrative of the sexually experienced woman highlights the dialogic complexities of the relationships between amatory and domestic fiction in the mid-eighteenth century. The perseverance of amatory modes of writing in later eighteenth-century domestic novels gestures toward alternate ideological possibilities for female subjectivity through both the exercise of virtue and the exploration of sexual desire.
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ItemMornings with Radio 774: can John Howard’s medium of choice enhance public sphere activity?( 2007)This paper addresses the necessity for program-specific analysis in radio research by focussing on Jon Faine’s Morning Program on ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne). After establishing the present Prime Minister’s preference for radio appearances over all other types of media, I examine the extent to which Faine’s particular iteration of talkback has the capacity to enhance public sphere activity, given the view that this medium is being strategically utilised by politicians to gain virtually uncontested access to listeners. My examination occurs principally through a morning’s observation of Faine’s program, supported by information from recordings of a constructed week of the program from the previous two months. My findings suggest that while a certain amount of ‘top-down’ flow of information is unavoidable, some contestation of ideas often occurs, mitigating politicians’ exploitation of at least this particular program. Faine’s program does, moreover, seem to give the impression of an acceptance of listeners calls on topics that affect their daily lives, even though only a small number of ‘ordinary’ callers are featured each day. My observations suggest this program does offer processes that enhance public sphere activity, although with some qualifications.
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ItemObservations on the history and uses of animation occasioned by the exhibition Eyes Lies and Illusions selected from works in the Werner Nekes Collection( 2008)The exhibition Eyes, Lies and Illusions held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne and the Hayward gallery in London was a selection from the 20,000 optical toys, scientific instruments, antiquarian books and visual entertainments in the collection of Werner Nekes, the German experimental film maker. This essay begins with a consideration of the historical trajectory of belief in the afterlife in relation to ‘animation’, the imputation of a soul to anything that appeared to move itself. The second section suggests that animation techniques bear witness to the persistence of atavistic beliefs in modernity. The third addresses the proximity of technology and magic in animation, and proposes a more extended use of the term ‘animation’.
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ItemImmersion, reflexivity and distraction: spatial strategies for digital cities( 2007)This essay focuses on the ways that cinema and the city have mutually constituted new immersive experiences of urban perception.
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ItemRelatively benign corruption? Critical discourse analysis for media students( 2007)Don Watson, in his book Death Sentence, claims that the way in which the media disseminate information and the way politicians manipulate this process have resulted in a kind of corruption. Assuming this is the case, I suggest in this paper that it is therefore useful to equip students in media courses with the skills of critical discourse analysis. A useful starting point for teaching these skills to undergraduates, I have found, is a newspaper article by Alexander Downer, excerpted from one of his speeches about the 'war on terror'. Such a mediated political linguistic act as this will of course inherently involve power or resistance to power, and will contribute to the formation of a specific discourse community via strategies of coercion, resistance, opposition or protest, and dissimulation/de-legitimisation. This necessarily results in relations of struggle that are played out at the lexicogrammatical level, on which I invite students to focus. Such media texts, which represent and foreground starkly opposing ideologies, can be useful vehicles for teaching the concept of discourse communities, as well as the reading strategies of critical discourse analysis.
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ItemSecret lives of Asian Australian cinema: offshore labour in transnational film industries( 2008)This article examines some of the material dimensions of Asian Australian cinema through an analysis of selected regional production and post-production flows since 1980, and the debates surrounding them. It begins with a theoretical discussion of the role of labour within the global film industry, before moving on to consider controversies around the offshoring of film production to lower-cost destinations. Specific examples of production relays between Asia and Australia are analysed in the context of models of cultural labour offered by Toby Miller et al. and Ben Goldsmith. The author proposes a definition of Asian Australian cinema that seeks to attend to cross-border collaboration at a variety of levels and to render visible 'below-the-line' Asian Australian interfaces that do not necessarily register on screen.