Senior Lecturer
Dr Jodi Brooks
B Media & Communication (UTS), MA Research (UTS), PhD (UNSW)
Arts,Design & Architecture
School of the Arts and Media
I began teaching Film Studies at UNSW in 1997 when I joined what was then the School of Theatre and Film. Prior to taking up this position I had held positions at the University of Melbourne (1994-1997) and at the University of Technology (1991-1994). I have always been interested in finding new ways of teaching and understanding our evolving screen culture and its diverse forms and histories and this interest informs both my teaching and my research.
Alongside my research and teaching I have also been involved in curating film programs, worked in community media organisations, served on advisory committees and panels for various organisations including the National Library of Australia's Film and Video Collection and the Sydney International Film Festival, and was one of the co-founders of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand and served as Vice President of SSAAANZ for 3 years. I have convened and co-convened a number of film and screen conferences and symposia including Cinefeminisms and the Academy (co-convened with Dr Jessica Ford, University of Newcastle), Time, Memory and the Moving Image (co-convened with Prof Paula Hamilton, University of Technology), and Cinema and the Senses (co-convened with George Kouvaros and Laleen Jayamanne).
recently published:
Jodi Brooks (2019) Olive Kitteridge (Lisa Cholodenko, 2014), quality television and difficult women: female discontent in the age of binge-viewing, Feminist Media Studies, 19:7, 944-961
- Publications
- Awards
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Jodi's research and teaching have been recognised through the following awards:
Dean's Learning & Teaching Award (2014) for Outstanding Track Record in Higher Degree Research Supervision.
ARC Postgraduate Council Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Award (2014)
Screen (Oxford University Press) Award for Excellence in Screen Studies (UK, 2002) for the essay "Ghosting the Machine: the sounds of tap and the sounds of film" Screen 44.4.
Humanities Research Program Dissertation Award, 1998, University of New South Wales for PhD thesis: Benjamin for Girls: Cinema, Spectatorship, Fascination
Film Advisory Panel member, Sydney International Film Festival, 2016 - present
Vice-President (Australia), Screen Studies Association of Australian and New Zealand (SSAAANZ) 2015-2018
Member of National Film and Video Lending Collection Advisory Committee, National Library of Australia, 2002-2003
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My Research Supervision
Current PhD supervisions (primary supervisor)
Caroline Grose, "Scripting and performing innocence: Child/adult relationships on Australian & New Zealand screens."
Luke Robinson, "The Disappearing Faces of Hollywood Crime Films."
Pearl Tan, "Developing intersectional characters for Australian screen audiences."
Current PhD supervisions (joint supervision
Kyla Allison (joint supervision with Dr Michael Richardson),"An affective examination of the impasses around the #MeToo movement."
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:
Hollywood Film: industry, technology, aesthetics (ARTS1062)
Film Genre (ARTS2064)