Associate Professor Deane Williams
PhD (La Trobe University) MA (La Trobe University), BA, Hons (La Trobe University), BA (Swinburne University of Technology)
Deane Williams curriculum vitae [
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Biography
Since 1990 I have been researching and writing about realist and documentary film with a special interest in Australian feature cinema. More recently I have been interested in American cinema. In 1996 I published Mapping the Imaginary: Ross Gibson's Camera Natura. Since that book I have written Australian Post-War Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors - on including the work of the Melbourne Realist Film Unit, the films of John Heyer, Cecil Holmes and R. Maslyn Williams. In 2008 Brian McFarlane and I wrote the book Michael Winterbottom for the Manchester UP's British Directors. In 2007 I began work with Con Verevis and Noel King on our Australian Research Council funded Australian Film Theory and Criticism project which has yielded many interviews and articles. At the moment I am writing a book on Sean Penn for Wallflower's Director's Cuts series. I teach Australian Film Studies and Documentary film Studies and supervise PhD students in documentary film, experimental film, Australian film, film history and realist film studies.
I am also the Editor of the international refereed scholarly journal Studies in Documentary Film {ISSN: 17503280}
Research interests
Realist Film Theory
The history and evolution of film theories relating to the realist mode.
Documentary Film
Historical and critical approaches to documentary film, in particular, immediate postwar documentary films across the world.
Australian Film History, Intertextuality and Film
The relationship between films, books, figures and songs etc.
Musicality and Film Theory
The function of songs and music in film soundtracks and music video.
Chinese Sixth Generation documentary film-makers
Selected publications
- Williams. D. and Verevis, C. (2010) 'Contemporary Australian Film Theory and Criticism'. Media International Australia, 2010.
- Williams, D. and McFarlane, B. (2009) Michael Winterbottom. Manchester, Manchester University Press.
- Williams, D. (2009) 'Cultural Materialism and Australian Film History'. Screening the Past: an International Electronic Journal of Visual Media and History, Vol 26, December.
- Williams, D. (2008) Australian Post-war Documentary Films. An Arc of Mirrors. Bristol and Chicago, Intellect.
- Williams, D. (1996) Mapping the Imaginary: Ross Gibson's Camera Natura. Carlton South, Australian Teachers of Media in association with Australian Film Institute Research and Information Centre.
Competitive grants
- Australian Film Theory and Criticism (2007 - 2009), Australian Research Council