Dr Belinda Smaill - Researcher Profile

Biography

I received my PhD from Monash University. I have also studied in New Zealand where I received degrees in American Studies and in Fine Arts (majoring in filmmaking). I am the co-editor of Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific (2008) and author of The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture (2010). My research has appeared in a number of international journals including Camera Obscura, Jump Cut, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies and Studies in Australasian Cinema. I am also a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council funded project titled The History of Asian Australian Cinema.

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2002

Publications

Books

Smaill, B.M., 2010, The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Khoo, O., Smaill, B.M., Yue, A. (eds), 2008, Editorial: Transnational Asian Australian cinema, Part 1, Intellect Ltd, United Kingdom.

Khoo, O., Smaill, B.M., Yue, A. (eds), 2008, Editorial: Transnational Asian Australian cinema, Part 2, Intellect Ltd, United Kingdom.

Rodrigues, U., Smaill, B. (eds), 2008, Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, United Kingdom.

Book Chapters

Smaill, B.M., 2008, Asia Pacific modernities: thinking through youth media locales, in Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region, eds Usha M Rodrigues and Belinda Smaill, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle UK, pp. 1-15.

Journal Articles

Smaill, B.M., 2012, Cinema against the age: Feminism and contemporary documentary, Screening the Past [P], vol 34, La Trobe University, Online, pp. 1-15.

Smaill, B., 2011, Asian Australian intercultural domesticity in Aya and The Home Song Stories, Journal of Australian Studies [P], vol 35, issue 1, Routledge, Australia, pp. 19-32.

Smaill, B., 2010, History, feminism, and time: Gillian Armstrong's documentary series, Metro [P], vol 167, Austalian Teachers of Media, Melbourne, pp. 102-107.

Smaill, B., 2010, Intercultural romance and Australian cinema: Asia and Australia in The Home Song Stories and Mao's Last Dancer, Screening the Past [P], vol 28, La Trobe University, Australia, pp. 1-11.

Smaill, B., 2010, Teaching Australian television studies, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies [P], vol 24, issue 5, Routledge, Australia, pp. 805-809.

Smaill, B.M., 2009, Documentary Investigations and the female porn star, Jump Cut [P], vol 51, Jump Cut Associates, United States, pp. 1-19.

Smaill, B.M., 2009, The documentaries of Kim Longinotto: Women, change, and painful modernity, Camera Obscura [P], vol 24, issue 2, Duke University Press, United States, pp. 43-75.

Smaill, B.M., 2008, Affective authorship: contemporary Asian Australian documentary, Studies in Australasian Cinema, vol 2, issue 2, Intellect, Bristol UK, pp. 157-170.

Khoo, O., Smaill, B., Yue, A., 2008, Editorial: transnational Asian Australian cinema, Part 1, Studies in Australasian Cinema [P], vol 2, issue 2, Intellect Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 97-102.

Smaill, B.M., 2007, Injured Identities: Pain, Politics and Documentary, Studies in Documentary Film, vol 1, issue 2, Intellect Journals, Bristol UK, pp. 151-163.

Smaill, B.M., 2007, Loss and Transformation: Mourning and The Finished People, Journal of Film and Video, vol 59, issue 3, University of Illinois Press, Illinois USA, pp. 32-45.

Smaill, B.M., 2006, Diasporic subjectivity in contemporary Australian documentary: travel, history and televisual representation of trauma, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol 20, issue 2, Routledge, Perth WA Australia, pp. 269-283.

Smaill, B.M., 2005, Three Australian Documentaries: Diaspora and Subjectivity, Post Script: Essays in Film and Humanities, vol 24, issue 2 & 3, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce USA, pp. 22-34.

Smaill, B.M., 2004, Online personals and narratives of the self: Australia's RSVP, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol 10, issue 1, John Libbey Publishing, Eastleigh UK, pp. 93-107.

Smaill, B.M., 2003, Commissioning difference? The case of SBS independent and documentary, MIA: Media International Australia Incorporating Culture & Policy, vol 107, issue May, Faculty of Arts, Griffith University, Nathan Qld Australia, pp. 105-116.

Smaill, B., 2002, Disorientations: sadness, mourning and the unhomely, Journal of Australia Studies, vol 26, issue 73, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 161-169.

Smaill, B., 2002, Filmic encounters: the Indigenous struggles on film festival, Metro, vol 0, issue 134, Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM), Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 136-141.

Smaill, B., 2002, Narrating community: multiculturalism and Australia's SBS television, Journal of Communication Inquiry, vol 26, issue 4, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks USA, pp. 391-407.

Smaill, B., 2001, SBS documentary and Unfinished Business: Reconciling the Nation, Metro, vol 126, Australian Teachers of Media, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 34-40.

Other

Smaill, B., 2012, the Cowra breakout, Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand, vol monograph, I.B Tauris, London, United Kingdom, pp. 133-137.

Smaill, B., 2011, An understated approach: Telling truths in the tall man, Metro Magazine, vol journal, issue 169, Australian Teachers of Media, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 49-51.

Smaill, B., 2011, Diasporas of Australian cinema, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 25, issue 1, Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 132-134.

Smaill, B., 2011, Orientalism, cinema, and the enigmatic signifier, Homay King, Screening the Past, vol journal, issue 30, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-3.

Smaill, B.M., 2005, Eternity, Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, vol 1, Routledge, New York USA, p. 352.

Smaill, B., 2005, Exile and the Kingdom, Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, vol 1, Routledge, New York USA, pp. 366-367.

Smaill, B.M., 2005, For Love or Money, Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, vol 1, Routledge, New York USA, pp. 425-427.

Smaill, B.M., 2005, Serious Undertakings, Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, vol 3, Routledge, New York USA, pp. 1206-1207.

Smaill, B.M., 2004, Sadness: a monologue by William Yang, Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, vol 3, Routledge, New York USA, pp. 1169-1170.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"A Woman Did That?": Violence, Subjectivity & Gender in Commercial Art Cinema.

Supervisors:

Smaill, B (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Changing concepts of romance in romantic comedies.

Supervisors:

Williams, D (Main), Smaill, B (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Days of Our Lives: exploring relations between subjectivity, discourse and materiality in a technolo.

Supervisors:

Duffy, M (Main), Smaill, B (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

History of the New Wave: Memories, Movements and Auteurs.

Supervisors:

Smaill, B (Main), Williams, D (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Human rights films: Visions, missions and illusions.

Supervisors:

Smaill, B (Main), Davis, T (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Masculinity and the male movie star.

Supervisors:

Smaill, B (Main), Khoo, O (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Ned Kelly and Jandamarra: Mythopoesis of Identity and Resistance in White and Indigenous Australia..

Supervisors:

Davis, T (Main), Smaill, B (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Other Cinema: Freaks - From Idiots to Savants.

Supervisors:

Khoo, O (Main), Smaill, B (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Towards a map of documentary film as a political practice in post liberalised India researcher: Shweta Kishore.

Supervisors:

Williams, D (Main), Smaill, B (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Johnston, M.

Program of Study:

Peripheral visions: the refugee-focussed documentary film in 'Howard's Australia'. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Smaill, B (Main), Williams, D (Associate).

Student:

Mitchell, S.

Program of Study:

Human nature: popular representations of psychoanalysis in the films of Charlie Kaufman. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Smaill, B (Main), Davis, T (Associate).