19 October 2006
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| Dr Adrian Martin is the newly appointed Senior Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies in Monash's Faculty of Arts. |
Internationally regarded film critic Dr Adrian Martin has been appointed Senior Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies, in Monash University's Faculty of Arts.
Dr Martin was one of The Age newspaper's film reviewers for 11 years until early 2006 and has worked as a film reviewer for ABC Radio National. He is currently co-editor of online international scholarly film journal Rouge. He also recently completed a PhD on film style, titled 'Towards a synthetic analysis of film style', through Monash's Art and Design faculty.
In 1993, Dr Martin won the Australian Film Institute's Byron Kennedy Award, and in 1997 the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing (Geraldine Pascall Foundation) in recognition of his work as a film reviewer and writer on popular culture.
The award-winning journalist is also the author and co-author of several books on film including The Mad Max Movies (2003), Once Upon a Time in America (1998), Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia (2003), and Phantasms (1994).
Dr Martin said he was extremely excited to be joining Monash.
"Film and Television Studies at Monash is a terrific program and is strongly pointed towards the future, both of tertiary education in Australia and of the film and media industries themselves, in Australia and in fact the entire world."
Dr Martin said film was an important area of study. "Film is the most complex of all the arts, and its place in the history of world cultures is just as complex," he said. "It takes all the ancient forms of mythology, storytelling, image-making, musical expression, and so on, and puts them together with the most modern and modernist forms of culture, from architecture to hip hop."
The Head of Film and Television Studies at Monash, Dr Deane Williams, said he was delighted to welcome a person of Dr Martin's calibre to Monash.
"Adrian is one of the leading figures in film studies in the world and brings with him a huge research profile, teaching abilities, particularly at postgraduate level, as well as industry connections," he said.
Dr Williams said Dr Martin would be leading the research profile of Film and Television Studies and opening up the program to the extensive international research, publication and teaching network in which he operates.
For further information, contact Dr Deane Williams on +61 3 9905 4226, or Ms Karen Stichtenoth in the Media Communications office on +61 3 99051253.
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