Jane Stadler
I am Dean of the Graduate Research School at the University of New England. Previously I held academic leadership positions as Professor and Head of the School of Communication at Queensland University of Technology (2019-2020), Department Chair and Professor of Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology (2018-2019), Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Director of Higher Degrees by Research, and Convenor of the Film and Television Studies Major at the University of Queensland (2006-2017), Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies and Convenor of the Film Studies Major at the University of Cape Town (2002-2005), and Acting Chair of Mass Communication in the School of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University, where I completed my PhD in 2000.
My research expertise is in media studies and the philosophy of film. I have published widely in these fields, authored four scholarly books and over 50 refereed research publications, and been awarded competitive research grants by the Australian Research Council (DP10100309), the Ernest Oppenheimer Foundation, the USA National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Centre, and the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. I have held academic fellowships and visiting research professorships at Hong Kong Baptist University (2019), the UQ Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies (2011), and the University of California Berkeley (2005).
I am a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Queensland Human Rights Commission, a member of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, and I serve on the editorial board of Projections: Journal of Movies and Mind, the leading international journal in the field of cognitive film studies, and the editorial board of the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (IJHAC), one of the world’s premier multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed forums for digital humanities research.
I had the great honour of winning the Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Award for Teaching Excellence (2011), which is the highest form of recognition for a university teacher in Australia. I have also earned the University of Queensland Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2008), the Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award, University of Queensland (2008), the Merit Award for Distinguished Teachers, University of Cape Town (2004 and 2005) and the Murdoch University Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award (2000). My record of research leadership and research higher degree supervision, administration, and examination includes serving as Director of Research Higher Degrees at UQ from 2006-2017, supervising 21 PhDs and 4 MPhil/MFA students to completion and examining 14 PhDs and 7 MPhil dissertations.
Phone: 0406621997
My research expertise is in media studies and the philosophy of film. I have published widely in these fields, authored four scholarly books and over 50 refereed research publications, and been awarded competitive research grants by the Australian Research Council (DP10100309), the Ernest Oppenheimer Foundation, the USA National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Centre, and the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. I have held academic fellowships and visiting research professorships at Hong Kong Baptist University (2019), the UQ Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies (2011), and the University of California Berkeley (2005).
I am a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Queensland Human Rights Commission, a member of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, and I serve on the editorial board of Projections: Journal of Movies and Mind, the leading international journal in the field of cognitive film studies, and the editorial board of the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (IJHAC), one of the world’s premier multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed forums for digital humanities research.
I had the great honour of winning the Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Award for Teaching Excellence (2011), which is the highest form of recognition for a university teacher in Australia. I have also earned the University of Queensland Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2008), the Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award, University of Queensland (2008), the Merit Award for Distinguished Teachers, University of Cape Town (2004 and 2005) and the Murdoch University Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award (2000). My record of research leadership and research higher degree supervision, administration, and examination includes serving as Director of Research Higher Degrees at UQ from 2006-2017, supervising 21 PhDs and 4 MPhil/MFA students to completion and examining 14 PhDs and 7 MPhil dissertations.
Phone: 0406621997
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Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, the Cinematic, Eds. Erik Champion, Jane Stadler et al. Routledge, 2022.
Link to publication: https://www.routledge.com/Screen-Tourism-and-Affective-Landscapes-The-Real-the-Virtual-and-the/Champion-Lee-Stadler-Peaslee/p/book/9781032355962#:~:text=Resources%20Support%20Material-,Book%20Description,places%20they%20depict%20or%20film.
Chapter 4 Abstract: This chapter uses geovisualization techniques to investigate spatial politics and mobility in the film and novel Red Dog and to reveal complex relationships that are otherwise obscured by the deployment of quirky humor, apparently harmless cultural stereotypes, and a feel-good narrative. In particular, we examine tensions between the mining industry, the Pilbara community, and myths of national and regional identity conveyed in cultural narratives including those of Indigenous Australians and those perpetuated in the western genre. We undertake a pragmatic form of geographical and narrative mapping to reinterpret not just the relationship between cultural politics and geography, but also the important role that mobility plays in the narrative of colonial progress and expansion. In the case of Red Dog, we use geovisualization as a mode of narrative analysis in order to make visible the complex spatial history that is implicit in the relationship between the story of Red Dog’s wanderings and the socio-economic development of the Pilbara region.
New this this Edition
Updated case studies and ‘Issues’ boxes, which encourage students to reflect further on the issues discussed in each chapter.
Margin notes and design make the text simple for students to navigate.
Stadler and McWilliam set production techniques and approaches to screen analysis in historical context. They demystify technological developments and explain the implications of increasing convergence of film and television technologies. They also discuss aesthetics, narrative, realism, genre, celebrity, cult media and global screen culture. Throughout they highlight the links between screen theory and creative practice.
With extensive international examples, Screen Media is an ideal introduction to critical engagement with film and television.
'Screen Media offers a systematic approach to film and television analysis. The examples chosen by the authors are both appropriate and timely, and are presented in a very lively and readable form that will appeal to an international readership.' - Rebecca L. Abbott, Professor of Film, Video + Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, USA
Papers by Jane Stadler
Link to edited book: https://www.wiley.com/en-au/A+Companion+to+Motion+Pictures+and+Public+Value-p-9781119677116
Cite as: Stadler, J. and Hawkes, L. “Serial Killer Cinema and Dark Tourism: The Affective Contours of Genre and Place.” Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes, Eds. Erik Champion, Jane Stadler et al. Routledge, 2022. 158–179.
Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, the Cinematic, Eds. Erik Champion, Jane Stadler et al. Routledge, 2022.
Link to publication: https://www.routledge.com/Screen-Tourism-and-Affective-Landscapes-The-Real-the-Virtual-and-the/Champion-Lee-Stadler-Peaslee/p/book/9781032355962#:~:text=Resources%20Support%20Material-,Book%20Description,places%20they%20depict%20or%20film.
Chapter 4 Abstract: This chapter uses geovisualization techniques to investigate spatial politics and mobility in the film and novel Red Dog and to reveal complex relationships that are otherwise obscured by the deployment of quirky humor, apparently harmless cultural stereotypes, and a feel-good narrative. In particular, we examine tensions between the mining industry, the Pilbara community, and myths of national and regional identity conveyed in cultural narratives including those of Indigenous Australians and those perpetuated in the western genre. We undertake a pragmatic form of geographical and narrative mapping to reinterpret not just the relationship between cultural politics and geography, but also the important role that mobility plays in the narrative of colonial progress and expansion. In the case of Red Dog, we use geovisualization as a mode of narrative analysis in order to make visible the complex spatial history that is implicit in the relationship between the story of Red Dog’s wanderings and the socio-economic development of the Pilbara region.
New this this Edition
Updated case studies and ‘Issues’ boxes, which encourage students to reflect further on the issues discussed in each chapter.
Margin notes and design make the text simple for students to navigate.
Stadler and McWilliam set production techniques and approaches to screen analysis in historical context. They demystify technological developments and explain the implications of increasing convergence of film and television technologies. They also discuss aesthetics, narrative, realism, genre, celebrity, cult media and global screen culture. Throughout they highlight the links between screen theory and creative practice.
With extensive international examples, Screen Media is an ideal introduction to critical engagement with film and television.
'Screen Media offers a systematic approach to film and television analysis. The examples chosen by the authors are both appropriate and timely, and are presented in a very lively and readable form that will appeal to an international readership.' - Rebecca L. Abbott, Professor of Film, Video + Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, USA
Link to edited book: https://www.wiley.com/en-au/A+Companion+to+Motion+Pictures+and+Public+Value-p-9781119677116
Cite as: Stadler, J. and Hawkes, L. “Serial Killer Cinema and Dark Tourism: The Affective Contours of Genre and Place.” Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes, Eds. Erik Champion, Jane Stadler et al. Routledge, 2022. 158–179.
https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-34-first-release/mapping-the-cinematic-journey-of-alexander-pearce-cannibal-convict/