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Associate Professor Jodi Brooks

Associate Professor Jodi Brooks

Associate Professor
PhD (91色情片), MA Research (UTS), B Media & Communication (UTS), ASCM (NSW Conservatorium of Music)
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

Jodi Brooks's research embraces film and media theory, with a particular focus and interest in evolving forms of screen culture, film feminisms, screen performance, independent cinema, and aging in cinema. Jodi has听been teaching film studies and film theory for more than two decades and took up a position in Film Studies at 91色情片 in 1997 in what was then the School of Theatre and Film. Prior to taking up this position she had held positions at the University of Melbourne (1994-1997) and at the University of Technology (1991-1994). Jodi has also taught courses at UC Davis (in both Critical Theory and in Gender Studies) and been an associate research fellow at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.听

Jodi's research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and edited collections as well as catalogue essays. Since joining 91色情片 Jodi has supervised more than 30 Honours theses, 13 PhDs as primary supervisor, as well as serving as co or joint supervisor for many other PhDs.听Jodi has also served on advisory committees and panels for various organisations including the National Library of Australia's Film and Video Collection, and has been a member of Film Advisory Panel of the Sydney Film Festival since 2017. Jodi was one of the co-founders of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAANZ) and served as Vice President of SSAAANZ for 3+ years. Jodi has also been involved in curating听film programs and has听convened and co-convened a number of film and screen conferences and symposia including听Cinefeminisms and the Academy听(co-convened听 with Dr Jessica Ford, University of Newcastle),听Time, Memory and the Moving Image听(co-convened with Prof Paula Hamilton, University of Technology), and听Cinema and the Senses听(co-convened with Laleen Jayamanne and George Kouvaros), securing funding for each of these events.

Jodi is a member of the and the Arts and Health Research Group (91色情片) and is an Academic Disability Advisor in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture.

Phone
+61 2 90658028
Location
231H, Level 2 Robert Webster
  • Book Chapters | 2025
    Vengurlekar N; Trezise B; Mumford M; Balfour M; Hulbert A; Brooks J; Schubert E, 2025, 'TENTATIVE TEMPORALITIES: Enacting and performing care in a site-responsive arts festival designed for public hospital healthcare workers', in Care Aesthetics and the Arts, pp. 19 - 32,
    Book Chapters | 2025
    Vengurlekar N; Trezise B; Mumford M; Balfour M; Hulbert A; Brooks J; Schubert E, 2025, 'Tentative temporalities: Enacting and performing care in a site-responsive arts festival designed for public hospital healthcare workers', in Care Aesthetics and the Arts, Taylor & Francis, pp. 19 - 32,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Brooks J, 2024, 'Marnie (1964) Marnie (1964)', in One Shot Hitchcock, Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 244 - 257,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Brooks J, 2024, 'Marnie (1964): Restroom', in One Shot Hitchcock: A Contemporary Approach to the Screen, pp. 244 - 257,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Brooks J, 2021, 'Olive Kitteridge (Lisa Cholodenko, 2014), quality television and difficult women: female discontent in the age of binge-viewing', in Perkins C; Schreiber M (ed.), Independent Women: From Film to Television, Routledge, New York
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Brooks J, 2017, 'Gender Matters: Gender Policy and the Rewriting of the Mother-Daughter narrative in Contemporary Australian Women's Filmmaking', in Ryan MD; Goldsmith B (ed.), Australian Screen in the 2000s, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 143 - 164,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Brooks J, 2017, 'Gender Matters: Gender Policy and the Rewriting of the Mother鈥揇aughter Narrative in Contemporary Australian Women鈥檚 Filmmaking', in Australian Screen in the 2000s, Springer Nature, pp. 143 - 164,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Brooks J, 2015, 'Laurel Canyon (2002): Lacuscular Cinema', in US Independent Film After 1989 Possible Films, pp. 91 - 100
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Brooks J, 2015, 'Laurel Canyon: Lacuscular Cinema', in Perkins C; Verevis C (ed.), US Independent Filmmaking After 1989: Possible Films,eds. Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 133 - 148
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Brooks J, 2013, '"Invisibility's Beat: Ralph Ellison, Rhythm, and Cinema's Blind Field', in Hoogstad, JH (ed.), Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm, Rodopi, Amsterdam - New York, NY, pp. 149 - 168,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Brooks J, 2011, 'The State of the Discipline: Film Studies as Bad Object', in Vassilieva J; Verevis C (ed.), After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image, Routledge,
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Brooks J, 2004, ''Worrying the Note': inaudible beats in the gangsta film', in Drobnick J (ed.), Aural Cultures, YYZ Books, Toronto, pp. 157 - 168
    Book Chapters | 1999
    Brooks J, 1999, 'Crisis and the everyday: some thoughts on gesture and crisis in Cassavetes and Benjamin', in Falling for you: essays on cinema and performance, Power Publications, Sydney, Australia, pp. 73 - 104
    Book Chapters | 1999
    Brooks J, 1999, 'Performing aging/ performance crisis (for Norma Desmond, Baby Jane, Margo Channing, Sister George - and Myrtle)', in Woodward K (ed.), Figuring age: women, bodies, generations, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana USA, pp. 232 - 247
    Book Chapters | 1995
    Brooks J, 1995, 'Between Contemplation and Distraction: Cinema, Obsession & Involuntary Memory', in Jayamanne L (ed.), Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism and Cinema for the Moment, Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 77 - 90
  • Journal articles | 2026
    Brooks J; Perkins C, 2026, 'Teaching film studies in the age of streamed screenings and the commercial teaching archive', Arts and Humanities in Higher Education,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Perkins C; Brooks J; Loreck J; Sheehan RJ; Ford J; Tan P, 2023, 'Doing Film Feminisms in the Age of Popular Feminism: A Roundtable Convened by Claire Perkins and Jodi Brooks', Australian Feminist Studies, 38, pp. 231 - 247,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Brooks J; Hopgood F, 2021, '鈥淏ubbling鈥 the Fourth Age in the Time of COVID-19: Ambivalence and Agency', M/C Journal, 24,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Brooks J, 2019, 'Olive Kitteridge (Lisa Cholodenko, 2014), Quality Television and Difficult Women: Female Discontent in the Age of Binge-Viewing', Feminist Media Studies,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Brooks J; Davis T; Perkins C, 2018, '鈥淲omen, film and independence in the 21st century: A public forum.鈥', Fusion Journal,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Brooks J; Ford J; Robson M; Williams K, 2018, 'Editorial: Intersections in film and media studies', Fusion,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Brooks J; Williams K; Ford J; Robson M, 2018, 'Editors Introduction: Intersections in film and media studies.', Fusion, 14, pp. 3 - 5,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Brooks J, 2014, 'The Kids Are All Right, the Pursuits of Happiness, and the Spaces Between', Camera Obscura: a journal of feminism and film theory, 29, pp. 111 - 135,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Brooks J; Davis T, 2012, 'Untimely Cinema: Cinema Out of Time', Screening the Past, 34,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Brooks J, 2012, 'Missed Beats: Unseen Cinema and a Cinema of the Unseen (or Stella Dallas, Again)', Screening the Past, 34,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Brooks J, 2011, 'Cinema, Disappearance, and Scale in David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006)', Screening the Past,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Brooks J, 2010, 'The state of the discipline: film studies as bad object', Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 24, pp. 791 - 797,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Brooks J, 2010, 'teaching bad objects: introduction', Continuum - Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 24
    Journal articles | 2007
    Brooks J, 2007, 'The Lure of the Breach: Invisibility and the Dissolution of Cinematic Vision', Screening the Past, 22, pp. Online - Online,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Brooks J, 2006, 'The last `Darky`: Bert williams, black-on-black minstrelsy, and the African diaspora.', Screening the Past, 20, pp. online
    Journal articles | 2003
    Brooks J, 2003, 'Ghosting the machine: the sounds of tap and the sounds of film', Screen, 44, pp. 355 - 378,
    Journal articles | 2003
    Brooks J, 2003, 'Jodi Brooks reviews Arthur Knight, Disintegrating the musical: black performance and American musical film', Screening the Past, Issue,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Brooks J, 2001, 'Performing aging / performance crisis (for Norma Desmond, Baby Jane, Margo Channing, Sister George and Myrtle)', Senses of Cinema, 16, pp. On the internet - On the internet,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Brooks J, 2001, 'The sound of knocking: Jacques Becker`s Le trou', Screening the Past, 12, pp. 1 - 13
    Journal articles | 2001
    Brooks J, 2001, 'Worrying the note: mapping time in the gangsta film', Screen (Oxford), 42, pp. 363 - 381,
    Journal articles | 2000
    Brooks J, 2000, 'Jonathan Crary, suspensions of perception: spectacle, and modern culture', Screening the Past, 11
    Journal articles | 1998
    Brooks J, 1998, 'The force of the image', UTS Review: Cultural Studies and New Writing, pp. 180 - 187
    Journal articles | 1997
    Brooks J, 1997, 'Rituals of the Filmic Body', Writings on Dance, 17, pp. 15 - 29
    Journal articles | 1995
    Brooks J; Hurley M; Raymond L, 1995, 'Queer Media', Media International Australia, 78, pp. 4 - 4,
    Journal articles | 1992
    Brooks J, 1992, 'Fascination and the Grotesque: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?', Continuum, 5, pp. 225 - 234,
    Journal articles | 1989
    Brooks J, 1989, '"Consumed by Cinematic Monstrosity"', Art & Text, 34, pp. 79 - 94
  • Curatorial Outputs | 2022
    Brooks J; Hopgood F; Libbey K, 2022, A Day at the Movies: Dementia Friendly Screening event, exhibited at: Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, 22 October 2022 - 22 October 2022,
    Other | 2018
    Brooks J; Ford J; Robson M; Williams K (eds.), 2018, Intersections in film and media studies, special issue of fusion,
    Other | 2012
    Brooks J; Davis T (ed.), 2012, UNTIMELY CINEMA: CINEMA OUT OF TIME, Jodi Brooks and Therese Davis. Special issue of SCREENING THE PAST,
    Other | 1995
    Brooks J; Hurley M; Raymond L (eds.), 1995, QUEER MEDIA, Special issue of MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA, SAGE Publications,

2024 -2027: $90000. Dementia Friendly Screenings Program -- a 3 year program of dementia friendly film events for Canberra. Funded by听ACT Community Services Directorate/Commonwealth Government Contract. Project lead: J Brooks (91色情片) Project partners F Hopgood (UNE) and Karina Libbey

2021-2022: $18000. ADA Research Fellow (91色情片)

2019: $2028 School Research Grant (SRG). "Cinefemininsms and the Academy." J Brooks (91色情片). J Ford (U Newcastle), J Murphet (91色情片)

1998:听 $10000. Australian Film Commission (AFC),听Industry and Cultural Development Grant : International symposium, "Cinema and the Senses." Convened by J Brooks, (91色情片) L. Jayamanne (USyd) and G. Kouvaros (91色情片).听 91色情片, September 1998.听

1998: $6000. FASS 91色情片 Humanities Research Program Conference Support: International symposium "Cinema and the Senses", 91色情片, September 1998. J Brooks & G Kouvaros

Jodi's research and teaching have听been recognised through the following awards:

  • Honourable Mention, Arc PGC Research Supervision Award,听Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, 91色情片. In recognition of their above and beyond contribution to the HDR experience at 91色情片. 2024
  • Honourable Mention, Arc听PGC Research Supervisor Award, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, 91色情片. In recognition of their above and beyond contribution to the HDR experience at 91色情片. 2022
  • Dean's Learning & Teaching Award 听for Outstanding Track Record in Higher Degree Research Supervision. 2014.
  • 听Arc听Postgraduate Council Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Award. 2014
  • Screen听听听(Oxford University Press) for Excellence in Screen Studies (UK, 2003) for the essay听听Screen听44.4.听
  • Humanities Research Program Dissertation Best Thesis Award, 1998, University of New South Wales for PhD thesis:听Benjamin for Girls: Cinema, Spectatorship, Fascination. 1998

I am a member of the Arts & Health Research Groupand the.

I am the听Project Lead on a 3 year project, funded by the ACT Government, to develop dementia friendly screening events and dementia friendly screen culture for the Canberra community.听Project collaborators include Dr Fincina Hopgood, University of New England, and Audience Development expert Karina Libbey. This project builds on our earlier pilot听event, which took听place in听Canberra in October 2022 (the ACT's first dementia friendly screening) at the Arc cinema, National Film and Sound Archive and received funding support from the ACT Government. Research for this project has been supported by an ADA Research Fellowship.

I am also currently completing a study of the ways that the shift to online screenings in film and screen studies courses shapes curriculum, film engagement, and student experience with Dr Claire Perkins (Monash University), with a particular focus on the ways this shift is impacting on the teaching of film feminisms.

Engagement & Leadership

  • Sydney Film Festival,听Film Advisory Panel, 2024
  • Sydney Film Festival, Film Advisory Panel member, 2023听
  • Sydney Film Festival, Film Advisory Panel member, 2022
  • Sydney Film Festival, Film Advisory Panel member, 2021
  • Sydney Film Festival,听Film Advisory Panel member,听2020
  • Sydney Film Festival, Film Advisory Panel member, 2019
  • Sydney Film Festival, Film Advisory Panel member, 2018
  • Vice-President (Australia), Screen Studies Association of Australian and New Zealand (SSAAANZ) 2015-2018
  • Guest Facilitator, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Public Forum on Women, Film and Independence in the 21st Century, event coordinators A/Prof Therese Davis (Monash) and Dr Sian Mitchell (Melbourne Women鈥檚 Film Festival), ACMI Federation Square 18 Feb 2018
  • Sydney International Film Festival, Film Advisory Panel member, 2017
  • Sydney International Film Festival, Film Advisory Panel member, 2016
  • Member of National Film and Video Lending Collection听Advisory Committee, National Library of Australia, 2002-2003

Professional memberships

Screen Studies Association of Australian and New Zealand (SSAAANZ)

My Research Supervision

Current PhD supervisions (primary supervisor)

  • David Curzon "The Future of Disability Representation in Australian Film and Television" PhD in Creative Practice

PhD completions (Primary supervisor)

  • Dr Pearl Tan, "Diversity Work in the Australian Screen Industry":听 fictional podcast听and dissertation听(PhD in Creative practice, 2025). associate supervisor, A/Prof Tanja Dreher.
  • Dr Caroline Grose, 鈥淏eyond the Watershed Moment鈥擱emaking Coming-of-Age in Australian Film and Television鈥 (PhD, 2024).
  • Dr Kyla Allison, "Speaking Out: Affective Terrains, Communicative Injustice, and Sexual Misconduct." (PhD 2024). Joint supervision with Dr Michael Richardson.
  • Dr Luke Robinson,听"Facing erasure: the disappearing faces of 1940s Hollywood gothic cinema" (PhD 2023). Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis.
  • Dr Phoebe Macrossan, "The Utopian Modalities of Contemporary American Screensong" (PhD 2018).
  • Dr Jessica Ford, "American Feminist Sensibility Television in the Post-Network Era" (PhD 2017).听
  • Dr Rodney Wallis "The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Hollywood Cinema: The Middle East, the Cold War, and the construction of United States political identity" (2016). Published as monograph.
  • Dr Annette Barnes, "The Soundtracks of Australian Transcultural Cinema: re-sounding the past" (2014)
  • Dr Megan Carrigy, "Performing History, troubling reference: tracking the screen re-enactment" (2011). Awarded the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences PhD Best Thesis prize. Published as monograph.
  • Dr Caroline Wake, "Performing Witness: Testimonial Theatre in the Age of Asylum, Australia 2000-2005" (2010), joint supervised with Dr Meg Mumford.
  • Dr Effie Rassos 鈥淨uestions of temporal presence and absence in contemporary film and video鈥 (2006)听
  • Dr Teresa Rizzo 鈥淔rom the cinematic apparatus to cinematic assemblages: a feminist intervention鈥 (PhD, 2005).听Published as monograph.
  • Dr Erin Brannigan 鈥淎 cinema of movement: Dance and the moving image鈥 (PhD, 2004). Published as monograph.
  • Dr Tara Forrest 鈥淭he politics of imagination in Benjamin, Kracauer, and Kluge鈥 (PhD, 2005). Awarded the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Best PhD Thesis prize.听Published as monograph.
  • Dr Deborah Staines 鈥淩epresentations of Auschwitz鈥 (PhD, 2002).
  • Tara Forrest 鈥淗abitual Perception and Film鈥 (MA, 2000)

PhD and Masters completions (Co supervisor) include:

  • Wenjia Meng "Negotiating Femininity in Chinese Reality Television: A Case Study of Later-life Matchmaking Show It鈥檚 Never Too Late" (MPhil 2024, Primary supervisor A/Prof Elaine Jing Zhao, co supervisors Dr Jodi Brooks and Dr Kerrie Davies)
  • Dr Max Bledstein 鈥淪hocking Exchange: The Iranian Horror Film鈥 (PhD, 2022, Primary supervisor A/Prof Michelle Langford; co-supervisors Dr Laetitia Nanquette and Dr Jodi Brooks)
  • Dr Emily Chandler "The girl typing discourse in North American children's television animation, 1990-2010" (PhD, 2017 Primary supervisor A/Prof Jane Mills, co-supervisor Dr Jodi Brooks).
  • Dan Edwards "The death's-head beneath: film's image of history" (MA Res, 2005, Primary supervisor Prof George Kouvaros, co-supervisor Dr Jodi Brooks)
  • Dr Richard Smith "The traffic in images: Deleuze and the action film" (PhD, 2002 Primary supervisor Dr Lisa Trahair, co-supervisor Dr Jodi Brooks)

My Teaching

I regularly convene and teach the following courses in the Film Studies major:

  • Contemporary Approaches to Cinema听(ARTS2061)
  • Screen Emotions (ARTS3065)
  • Australian Cinema (ARTS2062)

I have also taught and/or convened the following courses in our program:

  • Hollywood Film: industry, technology, aesthetics (ARTS1062)
  • Film Genre听(ARTS2064)
  • Film Studies Capstone (ARTS3065)