Mick Broderick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mick Broderick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mick |
| FAMILY NAME | Broderick |
| SIGNATURE | BRODERICK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7204-1512 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Managing The Days
The recently released eight-part Japanese docudrama THE DAYS (Netflix 2023) ostensibly concerns the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactor explosions and subsequent meltdowns at Fukushima. We highlight the problematic rendering of this particular Fukushima screen history by analysing THE DAYS' narrative veracity and reliance on 'heroic' disaster tropes, absent-presences, the glossing over of the radiological legacy, and the context of re…
Atomic Aborigines
Atomic Aborigines
Special issue introduction
While Australian cinema is generally defined by the feature filmmaking tradition, at least since the 1970s, ‘utilitarian filmmaking' represents a significant but barely visible portion of screen culture in Australia, a portion that has had an emphatic but unexamined influence on the media industries, education systems, industrial relations, research culture and national culture. Recent scholarly work undertaken internationally has shown how this …
Filmic Mutation
In the mid-1980s a Royal Commission was established to investigate the conduct of the British nuclear testing program in Australia (1952–1963). It sought to document the impact on military participants, nearby Indigenous communities and downwind rural and urban populations. Amongst the evidence presented were official documents, photographs and films recording the atomic detonations. This article considers as ‘visible evidence’ previously unknown…
Virtual Realities
Forgiveness is something that can be seen from behind’. Visualizing a conversation with a perpetrator and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a reconciliation village
In November 2018, the authors spent five days in Rwanda, visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial (KGM) and undertaking a paid tourist day trip to regional memorials and a ‘reconciliation village’ near the border with Burundi, to conduct creative research by using the established, institutional network of post-genocide and reconciliation education and tourism in Rwanda. The authors collaborated to produce a visual essay that would focus purely on pe…
Dossier
Dossier: Screen Genres of Reconciliation in Australia, Chile, Rwanda, and New Zealand." Critical Arts, 31(5), p. 77
Not Reconciled
In the two decades following the Rwandan genocide, a small number of feature films have attempted to represent aspects of the traumatic national experience of this mass violence. Apart from a few documentaries, official Rwandan government efforts towards national reconciliation remain largely absent in indigenous feature films, most of which treat their subject matter via conventional, social realist narratives. This essay assesses Kivu Ruhorahoz…
‘There is Still Time … Brother’ antipodean cinema and nuclearism in the mid-to-late Cold war
From the late 1950s to the early 1990s, representations of cold war ‘nuclearism’ featured regularly in Australian and New Zealand cinema. Narrative dramas envisioned a range of scenarios including atomic attacks, nuclear terrorism, global annihilation and post-holocaust survivability. Films also depicted community protest and resistance to nuclear weapons, as well as the questioning of security alliances that rendered antipodean cities primary nu…
Australian, British, Dutch and U.S. POWs
David Palmer's timely opinion piece in The Melbourne Age on 6 August 2015 draws attention to the little remembered history of scores of Australian and other allied POWs who were held as slave labourers in Japanese war industries in Nagasaki before and at the time of the atom bombing. Aspects of this neglected history also form a major component of my recent multi-screen, hyper-visualisation exhibition “Fading Lights: Australian POW and BCOF Troop…
Apocalypse Australis
This article considers the historical convergence of Australian cinema and eschatological tropes, including threads from non-secular apocalyptic narratives, the spectre of nuclear war, the ghosts of genocide and the geographical histories of southern catastrophe, cataclysm and survival. It surveys a wide range of Australian screen productions, from Soldiers of the Cross (1900) to These Final Hours (2013), in order to read the runes of antipodean …
Messages of Hope
For the past twenty years, the overriding story of Rwanda has been centred around the events and consequences of the genocide. In Rwanda, public expressions of that story have occurred in the gacaca courts, where survivors and perpetrators testified about their experiences and actions, during ongoing annual remembrance and mourning commemorations, and in memorial sites across the country that act as physical reminders of the genocide. While impor…
Interrogating Trauma
United Nations Report Reveals the Ongoing Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands
In September of 2012, Dr. Calin Georgescu, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste, submitted his report on the legacy of the nuclear weapon testing program of the United States in the Marshall Islands to the Human Rights Council of the UN. This long overdue report offers a harsh assessment of the history of American nuclear t…
Nuke York, New York
Almost immediately after 9/11, cultural tropes that had long been associated with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relocated to new roles as descriptors of the attack on New York City. Where once terms like "ground zero" referred to the detonation points of the nuclear weapons that were dropped in Japan, Ground Zero now refers to the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood in lower Manhattan. This appropriation of fr…
Interrogating trauma
In a French arthouse film an Algerian man draws out a large kitchen knife and cuts his own throat. In a short Sri Lankan art video the goddess of destruction, Kali, and a woman soldier surface from the ocean and walk towards a small seaside village. Shaky images of a video documentary bear witness to the muddied streets and flooded buildings of a poor, black neighbourhood of the Southern United States. In a low-budget Australian film written and …
Critical Masses
Apocalyptic desire
In recent years, popular film and television dramas have been recycling an age‐old narrative seemingly tailored for our epoch—the apocalypse. For millennia, dirough the written medium of scripture in Jewish and Christian sacred texts, an apocalypse has stood alone as the concluding narrative for informing and promoting catastrophic social change
Surviving Armageddon
This survey argues that the substantial sub-genre of SF cinema which has entertained visions of nuclear Armageddon primarily concerns itself with survival as its dominant discursive mode, not disaster as suggested by Susan Sontag. From the early post-Hiroshima films which anticipated global atomic conflict, the '50s cautionary tales of short- and long-term effects, through to '80s hero myths of apocalypse, a discernable shift away from an imagina…
Messages of Hope
For the past twenty years, the overriding story of Rwanda has been centred around the events and consequences of the genocide. In Rwanda, public expressions of that story have occurred in the gacaca courts, where survivors and perpetrators testified about their experiences and actions, during ongoing annual remembrance and mourning commemorations, and in memorial sites across the country that act as physical reminders of the genocide. While impor…
Interrogating trauma
In a French arthouse film an Algerian man draws out a large kitchen knife and cuts his own throat. In a short Sri Lankan art video the goddess of destruction, Kali, and a woman soldier surface from the ocean and walk towards a small seaside village. Shaky images of a video documentary bear witness to the muddied streets and flooded buildings of a poor, black neighbourhood of the Southern United States. In a low-budget Australian film written and …
Not Reconciled
In the two decades following the Rwandan genocide, a small number of feature films have attempted to represent aspects of the traumatic national experience of this mass violence. Apart from a few documentaries, official Rwandan government efforts towards national reconciliation remain largely absent in indigenous feature films, most of which treat their subject matter via conventional, social realist narratives. This essay assesses Kivu Ruhorahoz…
Apocalypse Australis
This article considers the historical convergence of Australian cinema and eschatological tropes, including threads from non-secular apocalyptic narratives, the spectre of nuclear war, the ghosts of genocide and the geographical histories of southern catastrophe, cataclysm and survival. It surveys a wide range of Australian screen productions, from Soldiers of the Cross (1900) to These Final Hours (2013), in order to read the runes of antipodean …
Critical Masses
Surviving Armageddon
This survey argues that the substantial sub-genre of SF cinema which has entertained visions of nuclear Armageddon primarily concerns itself with survival as its dominant discursive mode, not disaster as suggested by Susan Sontag. From the early post-Hiroshima films which anticipated global atomic conflict, the '50s cautionary tales of short- and long-term effects, through to '80s hero myths of apocalypse, a discernable shift away from an imagina…
Surviving Armageddon
This survey argues that the substantial sub-genre of SF cinema which has entertained visions of nuclear Armageddon primarily concerns itself with survival as its dominant discursive mode, not disaster as suggested by Susan Sontag. From the early post-Hiroshima films which anticipated global atomic conflict, the '50s cautionary tales of short- and long-term effects, through to '80s hero myths of apocalypse, a discernable shift away from an imagina…
Apocalyptic desire
In recent years, popular film and television dramas have been recycling an age‐old narrative seemingly tailored for our epoch—the apocalypse. For millennia, dirough the written medium of scripture in Jewish and Christian sacred texts, an apocalypse has stood alone as the concluding narrative for informing and promoting catastrophic social change
Critical Masses
Interrogating trauma
In a French arthouse film an Algerian man draws out a large kitchen knife and cuts his own throat. In a short Sri Lankan art video the goddess of destruction, Kali, and a woman soldier surface from the ocean and walk towards a small seaside village. Shaky images of a video documentary bear witness to the muddied streets and flooded buildings of a poor, black neighbourhood of the Southern United States. In a low-budget Australian film written and …
United Nations Report Reveals the Ongoing Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands
In September of 2012, Dr. Calin Georgescu, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste, submitted his report on the legacy of the nuclear weapon testing program of the United States in the Marshall Islands to the Human Rights Council of the UN. This long overdue report offers a harsh assessment of the history of American nuclear t…
Nuke York, New York
Almost immediately after 9/11, cultural tropes that had long been associated with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relocated to new roles as descriptors of the attack on New York City. Where once terms like "ground zero" referred to the detonation points of the nuclear weapons that were dropped in Japan, Ground Zero now refers to the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood in lower Manhattan. This appropriation of fr…
Interrogating Trauma
Messages of Hope
For the past twenty years, the overriding story of Rwanda has been centred around the events and consequences of the genocide. In Rwanda, public expressions of that story have occurred in the gacaca courts, where survivors and perpetrators testified about their experiences and actions, during ongoing annual remembrance and mourning commemorations, and in memorial sites across the country that act as physical reminders of the genocide. While impor…
Australian, British, Dutch and U.S. POWs
David Palmer's timely opinion piece in The Melbourne Age on 6 August 2015 draws attention to the little remembered history of scores of Australian and other allied POWs who were held as slave labourers in Japanese war industries in Nagasaki before and at the time of the atom bombing. Aspects of this neglected history also form a major component of my recent multi-screen, hyper-visualisation exhibition “Fading Lights: Australian POW and BCOF Troop…
Apocalypse Australis
This article considers the historical convergence of Australian cinema and eschatological tropes, including threads from non-secular apocalyptic narratives, the spectre of nuclear war, the ghosts of genocide and the geographical histories of southern catastrophe, cataclysm and survival. It surveys a wide range of Australian screen productions, from Soldiers of the Cross (1900) to These Final Hours (2013), in order to read the runes of antipodean …
‘There is Still Time … Brother’ antipodean cinema and nuclearism in the mid-to-late Cold war
From the late 1950s to the early 1990s, representations of cold war ‘nuclearism’ featured regularly in Australian and New Zealand cinema. Narrative dramas envisioned a range of scenarios including atomic attacks, nuclear terrorism, global annihilation and post-holocaust survivability. Films also depicted community protest and resistance to nuclear weapons, as well as the questioning of security alliances that rendered antipodean cities primary nu…
Dossier
Dossier: Screen Genres of Reconciliation in Australia, Chile, Rwanda, and New Zealand." Critical Arts, 31(5), p. 77
Not Reconciled
In the two decades following the Rwandan genocide, a small number of feature films have attempted to represent aspects of the traumatic national experience of this mass violence. Apart from a few documentaries, official Rwandan government efforts towards national reconciliation remain largely absent in indigenous feature films, most of which treat their subject matter via conventional, social realist narratives. This essay assesses Kivu Ruhorahoz…
Forgiveness is something that can be seen from behind’. Visualizing a conversation with a perpetrator and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a reconciliation village
In November 2018, the authors spent five days in Rwanda, visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial (KGM) and undertaking a paid tourist day trip to regional memorials and a ‘reconciliation village’ near the border with Burundi, to conduct creative research by using the established, institutional network of post-genocide and reconciliation education and tourism in Rwanda. The authors collaborated to produce a visual essay that would focus purely on pe…
Virtual Realities
Atomic Aborigines
Atomic Aborigines
Special issue introduction
While Australian cinema is generally defined by the feature filmmaking tradition, at least since the 1970s, ‘utilitarian filmmaking' represents a significant but barely visible portion of screen culture in Australia, a portion that has had an emphatic but unexamined influence on the media industries, education systems, industrial relations, research culture and national culture. Recent scholarly work undertaken internationally has shown how this …
Filmic Mutation
In the mid-1980s a Royal Commission was established to investigate the conduct of the British nuclear testing program in Australia (1952–1963). It sought to document the impact on military participants, nearby Indigenous communities and downwind rural and urban populations. Amongst the evidence presented were official documents, photographs and films recording the atomic detonations. This article considers as ‘visible evidence’ previously unknown…
Managing The Days
The recently released eight-part Japanese docudrama THE DAYS (Netflix 2023) ostensibly concerns the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactor explosions and subsequent meltdowns at Fukushima. We highlight the problematic rendering of this particular Fukushima screen history by analysing THE DAYS' narrative veracity and reliance on 'heroic' disaster tropes, absent-presences, the glossing over of the radiological legacy, and the context of re…
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