Dr Therese Davis
PhD (University of Western Sydney), MA (University of Technology, Sydney),
B.A. (University of Technology, Sydney).
Therese Davis curriculum vitae [
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Biography
My career in Film and TV Studies has taken a unique cross-disciplinary path. I have an undergraduate degree in Communications and an MA in Cultural Studies, both undertaken at University of Technology, Sydney. I later completed my PhD at University of Western Sydney. My dissertation on the face, death and spectatorship in the media age was published as The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition and Spectatorship (Intellect, 2004). This project formed the platform for several interrelated projects on spectatorship and cross-cultural recognition in the Australian cinema: 1) the widely referenced co-authored book with Felicity Collins, Australian Cinema After Mabo (CUP, 2004), and 2) a collaborative Australian Research Council Discovery project with Nancy Wright and Brooke Collins-Gearing ($199,000) (2006-2009) on collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Filmmakers in Australia. My research is primarily located in Film Studies, but it also draws on and establishes new dialogues with debates in Cultural Theory, History, and Indigenous media. I am currently developing a new research project on online film and digital culture. And in addition, I am very interested in political cinema in general as well as teen film and TV and women’s cinema. I am currently co-director of the Monash Research Unit for Film Culture and Theory.
Research interests
Australian film and television
Particular interests include: race relations in film and Indigenous media; film and history; teen film and television; Spectatorship Theory; Feminist Film Theory; women’s cinema – the face and faciality in image cultures; and, Walter Benjamin and film.
Selected publications
- Davis, T. (2009) “Indigenising Australian History: Contestation and Collaboration in First Australians”. Screening the Past, No. 24.
- Davis, T. (2009) “Love and social marginality in Samson and Delilah”, Senses of Cinema, No. 51.
- Davis, T. (2007) "Remembering our ancestors’: Collaboration and Mediation of Aboriginal History”. Studies in Australasian Cinema Volume 1, Number 1, Pages 5-14.
- Davis, T. (2004) The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition and Spectatorship. Bristol: Intellect.
- Davis, T., Collins, F. (2004) Australian Cinema After Mabo. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.