Honorary Associate Professor Jane Mills
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Kent-at-Canterbury; Ph.D. University of Western Sydney
NB: I am currently not accepting research students
Before coming to Australia in 1995 I was a Principal Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University where I was Course Director for the Masters degree in Documentary in the Northern Media School. Prior to that I was: Head of Producing at the National Film & Television School; Founder Director of the Edinburgh International Television Festival; Series Producer for a radical science series at Central Television (for Channel 4); Head Production at Granada Television as well as researcher on the investigative current affairs programme, World In Action and presenter on the daily news programme, Granada Reports; freelance author, journalist and filmmaker.
From 1995-2001 I was Head of Screen Studies at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS). From 2001-2009 I was a consultant in cineliteracy to the NSW English Teachers Association and the NSW Department of Education & Training, Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney and Honorary Research fellow at AFTRS. During this period I studied for my PhD at the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. My thesis is entitled: Hollywood and its Others: Porous Borders and Creative Tensions in the Transnational Screenscape. In 2009 I was appointed Associate Professor in the School of Communication (later the School of Communication and Creative Industries) at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW. I am now in the School of the Arts & Media at 91色情片 (Australia) on the Kensington campus and live at Bondi.
In 2014 I joined the School of the Arts and Media (SAM) after being Deputy Director (2012) and then Acting Director of the Journalism & Media Research Centre throughout 2013 when the Centre was successfully integrated into SAM. I am a frequent Visiting Professor to the Japanese Institute for Moving Images (JIMI) and was actively involved in designing and setting up their Cineliteracy course for undergraduates. My publishing activities include: Series Editor of听Australian Screen Classics听(Currency Press and the National Film & Sound Archive), Associate Editor and referee for the two Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) journals,听Metro听and Australian听Screen Education, and founding Editor and Board member of the online interdisciplinary journal, F耻蝉颈辞苍,听working closely with former colleagues at Charles Sturt University and with the University of Lincoln (UK). I am also a member of the Editorial Board of the Routledge series,听Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia. Previously a Board Member of the Sydney Film Festival, I remain actively involved in this and several other film festivals.
In addition to consulting, teaching and publishing in film and screen studies, screen literacy, visual media and communication, I have a production background in television and documentary film and have written on subjects including cinema, censorship, sex education, socio-linguistics, feminism, human rights and cosmopolitanism. A committed anti-censorship campaigner, I am a founder-member of 鈥榃atch on Censorship鈥. I am also a frequent broadcaster on television and radio and a film critic for ABC Radio 702. I'm the author of eight books of which the most recent are:听Jedda听(Currency Press/NFSA, 2012);听Loving and Hating Hollywood: Re-framing Global and Local Cinemas听(Allen & Unwin, May 2009);听The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin & Censorship听(Pluto, 2001). My documentary films include:听Yilmaz Guney: His life, His Films听(Channel 4) about the late Kurdish-Turkish director whose film听Yol听won the Palme d鈥檕r at Cannes in 1984; and听Rape: That鈥檚 Entertainment?听(BBC1) about the representation of sexual violence towards women in cinema.
Publications
Books
2012听听听听听听闯别诲诲补,听Currency Press/National Film & Sound Archive
2009听听听听听 Loving and Hating Hollywood: Reframing Global and Local Cinemas, Allen & Unwin
2001听听听听听听The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin and Censorship, Pluto Press;听Reinventing the Reel: The Road Movie, AFI.听
1993听听听听听 Guide to Erotic Literature, (ed.), Bloomsbury Press, University of听 Chicago Press
1993听听听听听听Sexwords,听 Penguin Books, London
1992听听听听听听Make It Happy, Make It Safe, Penguin Books, London
1989听听听听听听Womanwords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Patriarchal Society. In UK: Longman, Virago听 Press; In US: The Free Press, Henry Holt. Also translated and published in Taiwan (1997)
1979 听听听听听Make It Happy,听Virago Press,听 London. Translated and published in the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany.听Co-winner of听听The Times Educational Supplement听鈥業nformation Book of the Year鈥 Award.
1973听听听听听 Turkey: Torture and Political Persecution, Pluto Press, London.听Co-winner of the Society of Young Publishers 'Book of the Year' award.
Chapters & Articles
2019听听听 鈥楨mbracing Diversity: Art Education, Movie Magic and Creative Borderlands鈥樚 Screen Literacy: Education Through Visual Media Expression, Vol 1. Niigata University, pp 66-87 (ISSN: 2435-5739)
2018 听听 鈥Representations and Hybridizations in First Nation Cinema: Change and Newness by Fusion鈥 in A. Danks, S. Gaunson & P.C. Kunze (eds), The View From Here: Journeys Between Australian & American Cinemas. London: Palgrave Macmillan
2016听听听 鈥楻epresentations of Genocide in Australian Cinema鈥 (with Sarah Maddison) in J. Friedman & W.L. Hewitt (eds), The History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 16-30
2015听听听 鈥,鈥 Senses of Cinema, 39
2014听听听 鈥楽creening otherness: The potential of screen literacy learning for cosmopolitan knowledge and understanding鈥, in S. Chiba & S. Nakaya, (eds), 听Eiga Kyouiku No Jissentekikenkyu ~cineliteracy kyouiku no kanousei wo saguru / Film Education Research: What Can Cine-literacy Do.听 Japan Institute of Moving Image, Shin-yuri, Japan.
'Changing Patterns and Critical Dialogues: New Uses of Literacy,'听Fusion, 5:2
听听听听听听听听听听听 鈥楽ydney鈥檚 Sojourners鈥 in听 Neil Mitchell (ed), World Film Locations: Sydney. Intellect: Bristol.
鈥楽ojourner Cinema: Seeking and Researching a New Cinematic Category.鈥 Framework: The Journal of Cinema & Media. 55:1
2013 听听 鈥楶opular Screen Culture and Digital Communication Technology in Literacy Learning: Towards听 a New Pedagogy of Cosmopolitanism鈥, with B. Green, in听 Journal of Popular Film & Television. 41:2
听听听听听听听听听听 鈥楾he Sydney Film Festival and the Canon鈥, Sydney Film Festival 1954 to Now: A Living Archive. Sydney: SFF.
鈥楩rom confusion to听fusion: The birth of a new academic, peer-reviewed, online journal鈥,听 Fusion, 1:1 (ISSN 2201-7208)
鈥楽ituating the 鈥楤eyond鈥: Adventure-learning and Indigenous Cultural Competence鈥, (With B. Hill), Discourse. 34: 1..
2012听听听听听 鈥Visual Culture, Literacy Learning: Towards a Pedagogy of Cosmopolitanism鈥, 听Journal of Australian Studies Association in Japan;听鈥楬ollywood: Bad Cinema鈥檚 Bad听 听 听 听 鈥淥ther鈥濃, J. Vassilieva & C. Verevis (eds),听After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image. London: Routledge; Making Mini-Movies: The Mobile Phone as a Resource for a New Cosmopolitanism,听Journal of Australian Studies Association in Japan.
2011听听听听听 鈥楽creen Literacy: Its Social, Cultural and Educational Implications and Applications鈥 in Mary A. Drinkwater (ed),听Beyond Textual Literacy: Visual Literacy for Creative & Critical Inquiry.听Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press
2010听听听听听 鈥楨xpanding Horizons: Screen Literacy and Global Citizenship鈥,听English in Australia.听Vol 45: 2; 鈥楬ollywood: Bad Cinema鈥檚 Bad 鈥淥ther鈥濃, Continuum. 24:5; 鈥楳apping听Australia:听Cinematic Cartographies of (Dis)Location鈥,听Senses of Cinema,听听Vol. 55
2009听听听听听 鈥楯ourney Among Women听-听 Special and Electric鈥: booklet accompanying Collectors Edition DVD,听Journey Among Women,听Mad Man: Melbourne; 听鈥楩irst Nation Cinema: Hollywood鈥檚 Indigenous Other鈥,听Screening the Past. Vol 24: 2.
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- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
I recently edited the听鈥楶asolini Dossier鈥 for听Framework: The Journal for Film & Media.听听I am a member of the听Film Advisory Panel for the Sydney Film Festival, a听Programmer for the Antenna Documentary Festival, a frequent speaker for the听Cinema Reborn Film Festival and a听Member of the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Technical Advisory Group for Visual Arts and Photographic Media Arts.
At听recent Sydney Film Festivals I have introduced the films screening in the retrospectives for directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and Fred Wiseman, and have听 introduced and interviewed numerous guest directors. I have been a judge for the ATOM film Awards, the Sydney听Underground Film Festival and for the annual Film Critics Circle of Australia awards.
My Teaching
I have taught, supervised and examined undergraduate and postgraduate subjects and courses in film, media, screen and communication across a range of fields including documentary, social media, visual communication and other interrelated moving image, media and communication disciplines.
As an advisor, I compiled the Reader for the undergraduate 4th year specialisation in Cineliteracy for the Japanese Institute of Moving Images introduced in 2013.
In my previous position as Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Communication & Creative Industries at Charles Sturt University (2009-2012), I was the Honours and Postgraduate Coordinator, taking a special interest in developing the professional practice research doctorate whose students I taught and supervised.
At 91色情片, my HDR students are studying a range of screen topics that include: the education/entertainment nexusof contemporary television; feature film soundscapes; challenges to conventional patterns of film distribution and exibition; feminist reperesentation in TV animation series; sex,gender and power in the postfeminist romantic comedy feature film; the cultual inmpacts of Film Distribution;听The fragmented self revealed through supernatural manifestations in Female Gothic cinema.