Kelly Mcwilliam
Biographic Data
| ID | 3079662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Mcwilliam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcwilliam |
| SIGNATURE | MCWILLIAM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3991-4593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A preference for the proximate occurrence
Queer disorientations in Only the Brave , Head On , and Blessed
In this article, we explore the orientation of queer bodies to the city – and to Lisa French’s (2013) motif of ‘looking from the largely industrialised west at the city’ in particular – in three films directed by Ana Kokkinos: Only the Brave (1994), Head On (1998), and Blessed (2009). In doing so, we take up Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenological approach to focus on Alex (played by Elena Mandalis) in Only the Brave; Ari (played by Alex Dimitriades)…
Screen media
Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. The authors emphasise the importance of 'thinking on both sides of the screen'. They show how to develop the skills to understand and analyse how and why a screen text was shot, scored, and edited in a particular way, and then to consider what impact those production choices might have on the audience.Stadler a…
Ana Kokkinos
A comprehensive study of Ana Kokkinos’ fictional oeuvre – one of Australia’s most distinctive and critically successful filmmakers Contains critical readings of all of her fictional films, particularly in relation to ethnicity, sex and sexuality Focuses on the figure of the ‘outsider’ in Kokkinos’ films Available open access Ana Kokkinos is an Australian screenwriter, producer and director who has worked in film and television for almost thirty y…
Undergraduate programs in Cultural Studies in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa
This paper outlines initial findings drawn from the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia sponsored project Mapping Undergraduate Programs in Cultural Studies in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa. The project surveyed programs in Cultural Studies offered by Australian and New Zealand/Aotearoan universities to gauge how Cultural Studies is positioned and the extent to which programs are offered in each country. Highlighting that ‘Cultural S…
Re-imagining the rape-revenge genre
The Book of Revelation focuses on modern dancer Daniel’s (Tom Long) abduction by three masked women. As its biblical title suggests, Daniel experiences a personal apocalypse: he is chained naked to a floor, raped and, on release, embarks on a violent quest to find his attackers. In this article, we discuss the film as the site of two distinct, but interwoven re-imaginings. First, we discuss the film as a re-imagining of the rape-revenge genre thr…
Digital storytelling and the 'problem' of sentimentality
Sentimentality' is typically used to refer to the excessive, self-indulgent and banal use of affect to manipulate audiences into 'tender' emotional responses Sentimentality is also one of the most common criticisms of 'digital storytelling', a co-creative media practice in which 'ordinary' people are taught to create short, usually autobiographical 'digital stories'. Indeed, scholars and practitioners alike have noted the frequent reception of di…
Digital storytelling as ‘national cinema’
Digital storytelling is a co-creative media practice developed in California in the early 1990s in which ‘ordinary’ people are taught to create short, usually autobiographical ‘digital stories’. This article focuses on arguably the most famous digital storytelling project – the BBC’s ‘Capture Wales’ programme – to argue that not only are these digital stories, which are produced in workshop settings by non-professionals and exhibited primarily on…
Mediatisation and Institutions of Public Memory
Institutions of public memory are increasingly undertaking co-creative media initiatives in which community members create content with the support of institutional expertise and resources. This paper discusses one such initiative: the State Library of Queensland’s ‘Responses to the Apology’, which used a collaborative digital storytelling methodology to co-produce seven short videos capturing individual responses to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2…
Romance in foreign accents
This article is broadly interested in the adaptation and circulation of the mass-market romance genre as one example of the publishing industry's production and distribution of cultural artefacts within and across national borders. To consider this, the article focuses on the most successful mass-market romance publisher in the world, Harlequin-Mills & Boon, to ask the following questions: how has Harlequin-Mills & Boon, but particularly its inte…
Introduction
This issue of MIA is based on several of the papers presented at the Digital Literacy and Creative Innovation in a Knowledge Economy symposium held by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT and the ARC Cultural Research Network in March 2007. The articles in this issue consider how the rapid development of digital technologies has changed the production and consumption of media content, altering the very nature…
The Uses of Multimedia
We identify some tensions between formal education and informal learning in the uses of popular literacy since the nineteenth century, in order to argue for a 'demand-led' model of education in digital literacy. We go on to analyse three case studies - digital storytelling, the Flickr photosharing site and the MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) Fury - to discuss issues arising from demand-led learning, which requires a procedural (not propo…
When Three's a Crowd
This paper explores the role of the ex-lover within the lesbian family in the film The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love(1995). In the opening scenes of the film, teen protagonist Randy describes her family as a “normal, typical, regular lesbo household.” Randy's family includes three lesbians: herself, her Aunt Rebecca, and Rebecca's girlfriend Vicki. The stability of this family, however, is threatened early in the film by the arriva…
JAS review of books
D A Low (ed), Keith Hancock: The Legacies of an Historian, Melbourne University Press, 2001, pp 303, $32.95. Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism, State University of New York Press, 2000, pp 216, pb US$44.00. Douglas R G Sellick, Antarctica: First Impressions 1773‐1930, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2001, pp 256, pb $29.95. Pamela Jeanne Fulton (ed), The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price, Melb…
Mediatisation and Institutions of Public Memory
Institutions of public memory are increasingly undertaking co-creative media initiatives in which community members create content with the support of institutional expertise and resources. This paper discusses one such initiative: the State Library of Queensland’s ‘Responses to the Apology’, which used a collaborative digital storytelling methodology to co-produce seven short videos capturing individual responses to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2…
Undergraduate programs in Cultural Studies in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa
This paper outlines initial findings drawn from the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia sponsored project Mapping Undergraduate Programs in Cultural Studies in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa. The project surveyed programs in Cultural Studies offered by Australian and New Zealand/Aotearoan universities to gauge how Cultural Studies is positioned and the extent to which programs are offered in each country. Highlighting that ‘Cultural S…
Digital storytelling and the 'problem' of sentimentality
Sentimentality' is typically used to refer to the excessive, self-indulgent and banal use of affect to manipulate audiences into 'tender' emotional responses Sentimentality is also one of the most common criticisms of 'digital storytelling', a co-creative media practice in which 'ordinary' people are taught to create short, usually autobiographical 'digital stories'. Indeed, scholars and practitioners alike have noted the frequent reception of di…
Romance in foreign accents
This article is broadly interested in the adaptation and circulation of the mass-market romance genre as one example of the publishing industry's production and distribution of cultural artefacts within and across national borders. To consider this, the article focuses on the most successful mass-market romance publisher in the world, Harlequin-Mills & Boon, to ask the following questions: how has Harlequin-Mills & Boon, but particularly its inte…
The Uses of Multimedia
We identify some tensions between formal education and informal learning in the uses of popular literacy since the nineteenth century, in order to argue for a 'demand-led' model of education in digital literacy. We go on to analyse three case studies - digital storytelling, the Flickr photosharing site and the MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) Fury - to discuss issues arising from demand-led learning, which requires a procedural (not propo…
JAS review of books
D A Low (ed), Keith Hancock: The Legacies of an Historian, Melbourne University Press, 2001, pp 303, $32.95. Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism, State University of New York Press, 2000, pp 216, pb US$44.00. Douglas R G Sellick, Antarctica: First Impressions 1773‐1930, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2001, pp 256, pb $29.95. Pamela Jeanne Fulton (ed), The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price, Melb…
When Three's a Crowd
This paper explores the role of the ex-lover within the lesbian family in the film The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love(1995). In the opening scenes of the film, teen protagonist Randy describes her family as a “normal, typical, regular lesbo household.” Randy's family includes three lesbians: herself, her Aunt Rebecca, and Rebecca's girlfriend Vicki. The stability of this family, however, is threatened early in the film by the arriva…
Introduction
This issue of MIA is based on several of the papers presented at the Digital Literacy and Creative Innovation in a Knowledge Economy symposium held by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT and the ARC Cultural Research Network in March 2007. The articles in this issue consider how the rapid development of digital technologies has changed the production and consumption of media content, altering the very nature…
The Uses of Multimedia
We identify some tensions between formal education and informal learning in the uses of popular literacy since the nineteenth century, in order to argue for a 'demand-led' model of education in digital literacy. We go on to analyse three case studies - digital storytelling, the Flickr photosharing site and the MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) Fury - to discuss issues arising from demand-led learning, which requires a procedural (not propo…
Romance in foreign accents
This article is broadly interested in the adaptation and circulation of the mass-market romance genre as one example of the publishing industry's production and distribution of cultural artefacts within and across national borders. To consider this, the article focuses on the most successful mass-market romance publisher in the world, Harlequin-Mills & Boon, to ask the following questions: how has Harlequin-Mills & Boon, but particularly its inte…
Mediatisation and Institutions of Public Memory
Institutions of public memory are increasingly undertaking co-creative media initiatives in which community members create content with the support of institutional expertise and resources. This paper discusses one such initiative: the State Library of Queensland’s ‘Responses to the Apology’, which used a collaborative digital storytelling methodology to co-produce seven short videos capturing individual responses to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2…
Digital storytelling as ‘national cinema’
Digital storytelling is a co-creative media practice developed in California in the early 1990s in which ‘ordinary’ people are taught to create short, usually autobiographical ‘digital stories’. This article focuses on arguably the most famous digital storytelling project – the BBC’s ‘Capture Wales’ programme – to argue that not only are these digital stories, which are produced in workshop settings by non-professionals and exhibited primarily on…
Re-imagining the rape-revenge genre
The Book of Revelation focuses on modern dancer Daniel’s (Tom Long) abduction by three masked women. As its biblical title suggests, Daniel experiences a personal apocalypse: he is chained naked to a floor, raped and, on release, embarks on a violent quest to find his attackers. In this article, we discuss the film as the site of two distinct, but interwoven re-imaginings. First, we discuss the film as a re-imagining of the rape-revenge genre thr…
Digital storytelling and the 'problem' of sentimentality
Sentimentality' is typically used to refer to the excessive, self-indulgent and banal use of affect to manipulate audiences into 'tender' emotional responses Sentimentality is also one of the most common criticisms of 'digital storytelling', a co-creative media practice in which 'ordinary' people are taught to create short, usually autobiographical 'digital stories'. Indeed, scholars and practitioners alike have noted the frequent reception of di…
Ana Kokkinos
A comprehensive study of Ana Kokkinos’ fictional oeuvre – one of Australia’s most distinctive and critically successful filmmakers Contains critical readings of all of her fictional films, particularly in relation to ethnicity, sex and sexuality Focuses on the figure of the ‘outsider’ in Kokkinos’ films Available open access Ana Kokkinos is an Australian screenwriter, producer and director who has worked in film and television for almost thirty y…
Undergraduate programs in Cultural Studies in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa
This paper outlines initial findings drawn from the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia sponsored project Mapping Undergraduate Programs in Cultural Studies in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa. The project surveyed programs in Cultural Studies offered by Australian and New Zealand/Aotearoan universities to gauge how Cultural Studies is positioned and the extent to which programs are offered in each country. Highlighting that ‘Cultural S…
Screen media
Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. The authors emphasise the importance of 'thinking on both sides of the screen'. They show how to develop the skills to understand and analyse how and why a screen text was shot, scored, and edited in a particular way, and then to consider what impact those production choices might have on the audience.Stadler a…
Queer disorientations in Only the Brave , Head On , and Blessed
In this article, we explore the orientation of queer bodies to the city – and to Lisa French’s (2013) motif of ‘looking from the largely industrialised west at the city’ in particular – in three films directed by Ana Kokkinos: Only the Brave (1994), Head On (1998), and Blessed (2009). In doing so, we take up Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenological approach to focus on Alex (played by Elena Mandalis) in Only the Brave; Ari (played by Alex Dimitriades)…
A preference for the proximate occurrence
Sociology (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Digital Storytelling and Education (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)