Dr Deane Williams

Background and Research Interests

Deane Williams is the Head of Film and Television Studies, Monash University. Since 1990 he has been researching and writing about realist and documentary film with a special interest in Australian feature and documentary film. In 1996 he published Mapping the Imaginary: Ross Gibson’s Camera Natura published by the AFI and ATOM. Since that book he has been researching immediate postwar Australian documentary film including the work of the Melbourne Realist Film Unit, the films of John Heyer, Cecil Holmes and R. Maslyn Williams. More recently Deane has been working with Brian McFarlane on the book Michael Winterbottom for the Manchester UP’s British Directors series and on the relationship between musicality and film theory. In 2007 Deane began work with Con Verevis and Noel King on their Australian Research Council funded Australian Film Theory and Criticism project. Deane teaches Australian Film Studies and Documentary film Studies and supervises PhD students in documentary film, experimental film, Australian film, film history and realist film studies.

Selected Publications

• Michael Winterbottom Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007.(forthcoming)
• ''The Back of Beyond'in Geoff Mayer and Keith Beattie (eds.) 24 Frames: Australian and New Zealand Cinema, London, Wallflower, 2006. (forthcoming)
• 'The Empire Marketing Board', 'The Crown Film Unit', 'GPO Film Unit','Close Up', 'Ivor Montagu', 'Stewart McAllister','Robert Flaherty'.Encyclopedia of British Film. Ed. Brian McFarlane. London: Methuen: 2003
• 'The Neorealism of Mike and Stefani'. Screensound: The National Screen and Sound Archive, 2002.
• 'Robert Flaherty'. Senses of the Cinema, 2002.
• 'John Heyer: International Documentary Film-Maker'. Metro. 129/130 (Spring 2001): 248-255.
• 'Out of Place: SBSƒ’'s Australia by Numbers'. Metro. 126 (Summer 2001): 42-47.