Dr Jodi Brooks

My Research Supervision

Current PhD supervisions (primary supervisor)

• Pearl Tan, "Diversity Work in the Australian Screen Industry", PhD in Creative practice (Diversity work fictional podcast and dissertation) Under examination
• David Curzon "The Future of Disability Representation in Australian Film and Television" PhD in Creative Practice

 PhD completions (Primary supervisor)

• Dr Caroline Grose, “Beyond the Watershed Moment—Remaking Coming-of-Age in Australian Film and Television” (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, "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). 
• 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 “Questions of temporal presence and absence in contemporary film and video” (2006) 
• Dr Teresa Rizzo “From the cinematic apparatus to cinematic assemblages: a feminist intervention” (PhD, 2005). Published as monograph.
• Dr Erin Brannigan “A cinema of movement: Dance and the moving image” (PhD, 2004). Published as monograph.
• Dr Tara Forrest “The politics of imagination in Benjamin, Kracauer, and Kluge” (PhD, 2005). Awarded the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Best PhD Thesis prize. Published as monograph.
• Dr Deborah Staines “Representations of Auschwitz” (PhD, 2002).
• Tara Forrest “Habitual Perception and Film” (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’s Never Too Late" (MPhil 2024, Primary supervisor A/Prof Elaine Jing Zhao, co supervisors Dr Jodi Brooks and Dr Kerrie Davies)
• Dr Max Bledstein “Shocking Exchange: The Iranian Horror Film” (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 (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 (ARTS2064)
• Film Studies Capstone (ARTS3065)