Dr Belinda Smaill
PhD (Monash University), BA, Hons (University of Canterbury), BFA (University of Canterbury)
Belinda Smaill curriculum vitae [
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Biography
I received my PhD from Monash University. I have also studied in New Zealand where I received degrees in American Studies and in Fine Arts (majoring in filmmaking). I am the co-editor of Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific (2008) and author of The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture (2010). My research has appeared in a number of international journals including Camera Obscura, Jump Cut, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies and Studies in Australasian Cinema. I am also a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council funded project titled The History of Asian Australian Cinema.
Research interests
Documentary Studies
Documentary and the emotions; political and social concerns; subjectivity and the public sphere.
Australian Film and Television
Multiculturalism and diasporic experience in Australian film; the transnationalism of Australian film and television; cultural policy and representation and reception.
Women and Film and Television
Feminist film criticism; female filmmakers; women and representation and reception in film and television.
Selected publications
- Smaill, B. (2010) The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Smaill, B. (2009) ‘The Documentaries of Kim Longinotto: Women, Change and Painful Modernity’. Camera Obscura, Vol 71.
- Smaill, B. (2009) ‘Documentary Investigations and the Female Porn Star’. Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, Vol 51.
- Rodrigues, UM., and Smaill, B. (2008) Editor, Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region.