Dr Jodi Brooks

Teaching

I teach the following courses in the Film Studies major:
* ARTS2061 CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO CINEMA (core course)
* ARTS2064 FILM GENRE
* ARTS3060 FILM IN THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE
* ARTS1062 HOLLYWOOD FILM: INDUSTRY, TECHNOLOGY. AESTHETICS

Current PhD supervisions
Rodney Wallis
Dan Angeloro “Audio-visual remix cultures”
Anne Barnes “The role of sound in post-colonial Australian cinema”
Maija Howe "Home Movies"

Recent PhD and MA thesis completions
* Dr Megan Carrigy, "Performing History, troubling reference: tracking the screen re-enactment" (2011).
* Dr Caroline Wake, "Performing Witness: Testimonial Theatre in the Age of Asylum, Australia 2000-2005" (2010), joint supervised with Dr Meg Mumford.
* Dr Effie Rassos “Questions of temporal presence and absence in comtemporary film and video” (2006)
* Dr Teresa Rizzo “From the cinematic apparatus to cinematic assemblages: a feminist intervention” (PhD, 2005).
* Dr Erin Brannigan “A cinema of movement: Dance and the moving image” (PhD, 2004).
* Dr Tara Forrest “The politics of imagination in Benjamin, Kracauer, and Kluge” (PhD, 2005, HRP thesis award).
* Dr Deborah Staines “Representations of Auschwitz” (PhD, 2002).
* Tara Forrest “Habitual Perception and Film” (MA, 2000)

Publications

Refereed Essays
* "Cinema, Disappearance, and Scale in David Lynch's Inland Empire," Screening the Past 31 (2011) http://www.screeningthepast.com/2011/07/cinema-disappearance-and-scale-in-david-lynch%E2%80%99s-inland-empire-2/
* "The State of the Discipline: Film Studies as Bad Object," Continuum 24.5 (October 2010).
* "Introduction: Teaching Bad Cinema," Continuum 24.5 (October 2010).
* "The Lure of the breach; invisibility and the dissolution of cinematic vision," Screening the Past 22 (2007).
* “Ghosting the Machine: The sounds of tap and the sounds of film.” Screen 44.4 (Winter 2003): 355-378
* "Worrying the Note’: Mapping Time in the Gangsta Film,” Screen 42.4 (Winter 2001): 363-381.
* “The Sound of Knocking: Jacques Becker’s Le Trou,” Screening the Past 12 (March 2001)
* "Rituals of the Filmic Body," Writings on Dance 17 (Summer 1997): 15-20.

Selected Book Chapters
* "Invisibility's Beat: Ralph Ellison, rhythm, and cinema's blind field,"in press in Pluralizing Rhythm: Music, Art, Politics, eds Jan Hein Hoogstad and Birgitte Stougaard (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2011).
* "Teaching Bad Objects: An Introduction," and "The State of the Discipline: Film Studies as bad object," in After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image, eds Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis (Routledge, 2011).
* "'Worrying the Note': Inaudible Beats in the Gangsta Film," in Aural Cultures, ed. Jim Drobnick (YYZ: Toronto, 2004)
* "Performing Aging/Performance Crisis (for Norma Desmond, Margo Channing, Baby Jane, and Sister George)," in Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations, Cultures, ed. Kathleen Woodward (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999). Republished in Senses of Cinema.
* "Crisis and the Everyday: Some Thoughts on Gesture and Crisis in Cassavetes and Benjamin," in Falling for You, eds. Lesley Stern and George Kouvaros (Sydney: Power Publications, 1999).
* "Between Contemplation and Distraction: Cinema, Obsession and Involuntary Memory," Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism and Cinema for the Moment, ed. Laleen Jayamanne (Sydney: Power Publications, 1995).

Selected Reviews
* Review article, Arthur Knight, Disintegrating the Musical, Screening the Past June 2003.
* Review article, Jonathan Crary Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, reviewed in Screening the Past (Nov. 2000).
* "The Force of the Image," feature review of Fugitive Images, ed. Patrice Petro, UTS Review 4.1 (May 1998).

Other Information

Grants and awards
* Screen (UK) Essay Award (2003) Humanities Research Program (UNSW) Teaching Release Award, 2002
* Small ARC Grant, 2000: “Black Popular Music in Hollywood Cinema.”
* Small ARC Grant, 1999: "Mapping the Ghetto and Urban Space in the Contemporary Gangsta Film."
* Humanities Research Program Dissertation Award, 1998, University of New South Wales for thesis: Benjamin for Girls: Cinema, Spectatorship, Fascination”
* Small ARC Grant, 1996-7 (Melbourne University): "Aging Women in Cinema: Performance Crisis."
* Special Initiatives Grant (Melbourne University) 1995-6: "Performing Aging."



Conference convening
“Time, Memory, and the Moving Image.” One-day conference, UNSW (2005), co-convened with Prof. Paula Hamilton (UTS)
“Cinema and the Senses.” International film conference, UNSW 1998. Co-convened with Dr Laleen Jayamanne (USyd) and Dr George Kouvaros (UNSW)