Lisa French
Lisa French is Professor and Dean of the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne. She has published widely in local and international journals and is author of The Female Gaze in Documentary Film – An International Perspective (2022) and co-author of the books Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute (2009) and Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia (2003). She has several Teaching and Research Awards, including two Australian Teaching and Learning Council (ATLC) Citations, and RMIT awards for her ‘commitment to developing world-class links’ and for ‘fostering links between pedagogy and industry’. She in Asia, and her professional history includes a broad range of roles, particularly senior roles in the Australian film industry, including three years as the Director of the St Kilda Film Festival, and nine years as a Director of the national screen culture body, the Australian Film Institute (AFI). She has acted as a consultant to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), and The Australian Writers Guild (AWG); and an accredited member of The Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts (AACTA). Professor French is well known for integrating industry practice with academic theory and bringing industry partners to RMIT. She was appointed to Screen Australia's Gender Matters Taskforce (2018 - 2022) and has a research interest in women in the Australian film and television industries. She has made several documentaries: IMBD. Lisa is co-Chair of a UNESCO 19 global university research network on Gender, Media and ICTs .
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Shining a Light: 50 Years of the AFI is a history of a cultural organisation (AFI/AACTA), an overview of the progress of the Australian film and television industries over the last fifty years, and an argument about the importance of screen culture to a successful production industry. The second edition (December, 2013) has been delivered as an iPad (and android) book. This has allowed the inclusion of more than 60 video clips from interviews conducted as part of the original research. The new edition also includes an additional chapter outlining the AFI’s initiative in instituting the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), and an updated database of all the winners and nominees of AFI/AACTA Awards (1958-2013).
Available as an iPad book: free download
traces the progress of the film and television industries as well as screen culture within Australia over the past half century, through the lens of one organisation, the Australian Film Institute (AFI | AACTA).
Since its establishment in 1958, the AFI has played a central role in nurturing and supporting both screen culture and production, from small beginnings to an internationally recognised billion dollar industry. Shining A Light maps out the history of the AFI | AACTA (henceforth referred to as the AFI) and the wider industry over the past fifty years and explores the relationship of screen culture to a successful production industry.
The book is a timely and significant contribution to scholarship on Australian cinema, being published at a critical time in Australian film history. The authors offer an insider’s perspective, having interviewed twenty-seven key players from the AFI’s history, and have sifted through volumes of documentary evidence in chronicling the history of the AFI, its successes and its role in Australian screen culture past, present and future.
The writers’ collective experience spans filmmaking, academic research and teaching, film journalism, employment and service in key screen culture organisations as well as an abiding passion for Australian cinema – bringing to the book both the filmmaker or industry perspective, and academic scholarship.
Since its establishment in 1958, the AFI has played a central role in nurturing and supporting both screen culture and production, from small beginnings to an internationally recognised billion dollar industry. Shining A Light maps out the history of the AFI | AACTA (henceforth referred to as the AFI) and the wider industry over the past fifty years and explores the relationship of screen culture to a successful production industry.
The book is a timely and significant contribution to scholarship on Australian cinema, being published at a critical time in Australian film history. The authors offer an insider’s perspective, having interviewed twenty-seven key players from the AFI’s history, and have sifted through volumes of documentary evidence in chronicling the history of the AFI, its successes and its role in Australian screen culture past, present and future.
The writers’ collective experience spans filmmaking, academic research and teaching, film journalism, employment and service in key screen culture organisations as well as an abiding passion for Australian cinema – bringing to the book both the filmmaker or industry perspective, and academic scholarship.
Papers by Lisa French
Despite decades of work, some government backing, and a significant boost to the work in Australia on the back of the #metoo movement, Australian media organisations, advertising agencies, newsroom bosses and screen giants have had little success in overcoming the powerful societal attitudes that replicate, reinforce and feed gender inequality in Australia, including within the media industry itself.
Systemic sexism in Australia continues to require support for structural change that incorporates nuanced understandings of gender-based issues, ameliorated sexism and sexual harassment policies in the workplace, and equality of gender representation, particularly in senior roles.
A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Applied Communication.
This thesis is a study of female authorship that examines the feature films of Jane Campion in order to determine how her preoccupation with the cinematic articulation of 'female experience' is expressed in her films-whether female experience can be aestheticised, and to discover whether her gender can be discerned through the films of a woman director.<br /><br />The exploration of these ideas entails a review of the feminist thinking, methodologies and epistemologies that are relevant to cinema, and that examine relevant theoretical positions within feminism and theories of cinematic authorship. The key lens employed here for theorising Campion's cinema is that of postmodern-feminism. As an approach, this allows an understanding of difference rather than 'Otherness', and an enquiry into gender that is neither essentialist nor constructionist, but facilitates critical thinking about both positions.<br /><br />The central argument of this thesis is that Campion's film practice functions as an investigation into gender difference, how women and men live together in the world-experience that world, and are engendered as female through historic, psychological and cultural experiences. This thesis therefore argues that Campion's aesthetic and perspective is not only feminist, but also, female, and feminine, and her work a cinematic articulation of female experience.
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Shining a Light: 50 Years of the AFI is a history of a cultural organisation (AFI/AACTA), an overview of the progress of the Australian film and television industries over the last fifty years, and an argument about the importance of screen culture to a successful production industry. The second edition (December, 2013) has been delivered as an iPad (and android) book. This has allowed the inclusion of more than 60 video clips from interviews conducted as part of the original research. The new edition also includes an additional chapter outlining the AFI’s initiative in instituting the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), and an updated database of all the winners and nominees of AFI/AACTA Awards (1958-2013).
Available as an iPad book: free download
traces the progress of the film and television industries as well as screen culture within Australia over the past half century, through the lens of one organisation, the Australian Film Institute (AFI | AACTA).
Since its establishment in 1958, the AFI has played a central role in nurturing and supporting both screen culture and production, from small beginnings to an internationally recognised billion dollar industry. Shining A Light maps out the history of the AFI | AACTA (henceforth referred to as the AFI) and the wider industry over the past fifty years and explores the relationship of screen culture to a successful production industry.
The book is a timely and significant contribution to scholarship on Australian cinema, being published at a critical time in Australian film history. The authors offer an insider’s perspective, having interviewed twenty-seven key players from the AFI’s history, and have sifted through volumes of documentary evidence in chronicling the history of the AFI, its successes and its role in Australian screen culture past, present and future.
The writers’ collective experience spans filmmaking, academic research and teaching, film journalism, employment and service in key screen culture organisations as well as an abiding passion for Australian cinema – bringing to the book both the filmmaker or industry perspective, and academic scholarship.
Since its establishment in 1958, the AFI has played a central role in nurturing and supporting both screen culture and production, from small beginnings to an internationally recognised billion dollar industry. Shining A Light maps out the history of the AFI | AACTA (henceforth referred to as the AFI) and the wider industry over the past fifty years and explores the relationship of screen culture to a successful production industry.
The book is a timely and significant contribution to scholarship on Australian cinema, being published at a critical time in Australian film history. The authors offer an insider’s perspective, having interviewed twenty-seven key players from the AFI’s history, and have sifted through volumes of documentary evidence in chronicling the history of the AFI, its successes and its role in Australian screen culture past, present and future.
The writers’ collective experience spans filmmaking, academic research and teaching, film journalism, employment and service in key screen culture organisations as well as an abiding passion for Australian cinema – bringing to the book both the filmmaker or industry perspective, and academic scholarship.
Despite decades of work, some government backing, and a significant boost to the work in Australia on the back of the #metoo movement, Australian media organisations, advertising agencies, newsroom bosses and screen giants have had little success in overcoming the powerful societal attitudes that replicate, reinforce and feed gender inequality in Australia, including within the media industry itself.
Systemic sexism in Australia continues to require support for structural change that incorporates nuanced understandings of gender-based issues, ameliorated sexism and sexual harassment policies in the workplace, and equality of gender representation, particularly in senior roles.
A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Applied Communication.
This thesis is a study of female authorship that examines the feature films of Jane Campion in order to determine how her preoccupation with the cinematic articulation of 'female experience' is expressed in her films-whether female experience can be aestheticised, and to discover whether her gender can be discerned through the films of a woman director.<br /><br />The exploration of these ideas entails a review of the feminist thinking, methodologies and epistemologies that are relevant to cinema, and that examine relevant theoretical positions within feminism and theories of cinematic authorship. The key lens employed here for theorising Campion's cinema is that of postmodern-feminism. As an approach, this allows an understanding of difference rather than 'Otherness', and an enquiry into gender that is neither essentialist nor constructionist, but facilitates critical thinking about both positions.<br /><br />The central argument of this thesis is that Campion's film practice functions as an investigation into gender difference, how women and men live together in the world-experience that world, and are engendered as female through historic, psychological and cultural experiences. This thesis therefore argues that Campion's aesthetic and perspective is not only feminist, but also, female, and feminine, and her work a cinematic articulation of female experience.
Download at: https://researchrepository.rmit.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Centring-the-female-the-articulation-of/9921858951801341
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