Dr Felicity Colman
Lecturer, Screen Studies
Qualifications
BA Design (UTS), BA ArtHis (Q'ld), MA VisCult (Monash), PhD Art History & Cinema (UniMelb)
Biography
Felicity Colman lectures in the Screen Studies program on questions of political aesthetics in relation to world cinemas, histories of world film theory, censorship and media, commodity cultures (including television), avant-garde and experimental screen media. She is engaged in research into various theories of epistemological modes of address – by creative praxis and by creative theory. Her research and teaching draws on on experimental and independent world cinemas, with a focus on art, independent, indigenous, militant, documentary and feminist work from around the globe. Felicity has published on aesthetics, gender issues, and contemporary art and cinema practices, with specific reference to Gilles Deleuze and Fèlix Guattari, in journals including Angelaki, Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Women: A Cultural Review, Reconstruction, and The Refractory. Prior to lecturing at the University of Melbourne, Felicity taught visual cultural theory, and screen techniques to filmmakers, art students, art teachers, and theory students at Swinburne University, Prahran, Melbourne, and at the Centre for Ideas, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Felicity also worked in the contemporary arts industry in Melbourne for several years, as a facilitator of artist run galleries, including STRIPP gallery in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis was on philosophies of temporality in Robert Smithson’s experimental work.
Current research
- Film-philosophy
- Political cinema
- Teen screens
- Art philosophy
- Film Sound theory
Knowledge transfer
Recent presentations (from 2002)
- Colman, FJ (2008) ‘Practices of Mobile Democracy and Tyranny’, Poster presentation, MediaCity Conference: Situations, Practices and Encounters, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany, January 18-19 2008.
- Colman, F.J (2007) ‘To make war: Deleuze’s metaphysical principles of the cinematographic event’, The Deleuze Event, The English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University. Manchester, U.K. (8 September). Refereed paper: available as VIDEO LECTURE, ACTUAL VIRTUAL - #06 Deleuze A/V Journal http://www.eri.mmu.ac.uk/deleuze/journal06intro.php ISSN 1752-5624, The English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, http://www.eri.mmu.ac.uk/deleuze/journal06_3.php
- Colman, FJ (2007) 'Deleuze's cinema system and Godard's Notre Musique: the skeletons of war and the spiders from Mars.' The Modern French Research Seminar, The University of Cambridge, http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/news/modern.html
- Colman, FJ (2007) 'From the Skeleton to Life: Deleuze's Cinema Vectors', IAPL 2007, 'Layering' (International Association of Philosophy and Literature) The University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. 4-9 June 2007.
- Colman, FJ (2007) 'Affective Communities and Ritual Communications.' Gilles Deleuze: Texts and Images An International Conference, 9th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 5-7 April 2007.
- Colman, FJ (2006) ‘The Spinoza-Maypole’, ‘Wandering with Spinoza’ Conference, The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Melbourne 13-15 September.
- Colman, FJ. (2006) "The eternal sounds of the Stupid White Man: the resonating body politic in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man" SCMC (Society for Media and Screen Studies) Annual conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 2006.
- Colman, FJ. (2006) "Serious Delirium: Writing Justine" Deleuze and Literature Conference, University of Warwick, UK, March.
- Colman, F.J. (2005) Invited Speaker at 'Non Parlo di Salo: The Banning of Salò: Does Art Censorship Create a More Decent Society?' Melbourne Workers Theatre, Trades Hall Ballroom, Melbourne, July.
- Colman, F.J. (2005) 'Nihilist gest: they play without playing (elles jouent sans jeu)'. 21st Century French Colloque: Verbal, Virtual, The University of Florida, Florida, United States. April 1. 2005.
- Colman, F.J. (2004) "Affect in/of everyday life: sonic punctuation and gesture: vernacular communication", Everyday TransformationsThe Twenty-First Century Quotidian 2004 Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Perth, Australia, December 8.
- Colman, F.J. (2004)" Deleuze's Opsigns and Sonsigns- Affect on screen", at Experimenting with Intensities: Art, Science, Philosophy Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, May 12.
- Colman, F.J. (2003) "Iwakra Lain, Buffy Summers, and the Birth of the Storm Troopers: symbolic images of bodies in a hyper-spatiotemporal agency" at The Flesh Made Text: Bodies, Theories, Cultures in the Post-Millennial Era, Conference, The University of Aristotle, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 18, 2003.
- Colman, F.J. (2002) "The Confessional: The Sound of the Female "I" in Contemporary Film", The Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, 28 November, 11th Biennial Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, November 29, 2002.
Teaching
- 107-239 Rebel Screen: 1960s Projections
- 107-240 World Screen: Aesthetics and Politics
- 107-458 Screen Affect: Culture, Bodies, Emotion
- 107-414 Film, Censorship & The Media
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Current research supervisions
PhD supervisions
- Christopher Rowe 2008 - ‘Playing with Time: Self-Representation in Cinematic Narrative’
- Edwina Bartlem 2006 - 'Immersive Aesthetics: experiences of immersion in new media art and exhibition spaces'
- Blythe Chandler 2006 - 'Global Anxiety: Narrative in Contemporary Film'
- Steve McIntyre 2007 - 'Structuralist & Materialist films'
- Luke Stickels 2005 - 'Symbiotic Cinema: minimal sound aesthetics and Japanese film'
PhD associate supervisions
- Simon Hine 2006- 'Memory and Cinema in Contemporary Visual Arts'
- Tessa Dwyer 2005- 'Film Translation & Mutation'
- Christian McCrea 'Playland Burns: Situations, Poetics and Vitality In The Digital.'
MA supervisions
- Andy Saunders 2005 -research on nested narrative structures in film
- Simone Schmidt 2006- research on the aesthetic in Anri Sala's work
- Erin Stapleton 2006 -research on the aesthetic in Van Sowerwine's work, and Deleuze's Logic of Sense
- Veronica Tello 2007 - ‘Untitled’ (Contemporary art aesthetics)
Graduate completions
- Chloe Johnson 2008 MA ‘Sonic Intersections: subjectivity with punk aesthetics’
- Lucian Chaffey 2007 PhD 'Borderseriality: doubling and alterity in serial television'
- Keely Macarow 2006 PhD 'Disturbance: Bodies, Disease, Art'
- Annie Turner 2007 MA in Cinema Studies -'The Other Side of Sound: The Expressive Role of Noise and Cinema's Social Critique'
- Patrick Porter 2007 MA in Cinema Studies - 'The Textuality and Temporality of the Buffyverse: Rethinking Texts and Fandom in the Age of the Metacult.'
- Helene Walpole 2004 MA in Museum Studies
Publications
Books
- Colman, F.J. Deleuze And Cinema: the film concepts (Berg Publishers). (forthcoming).
- Colman, F.J. Aesthetics Philosophy Insight Series (forthcoming)
Edited collections
- Colman, F.J. ed. (2009) Philosophy And Film: The Key Thinkers. (UK: Acumen Publishing)
- Colman, F.J. et.al. eds., Sensorium: art-aesthetics-philosophy. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1-84718-334-4.
- Colman, F.J and C.J. Stivale eds. 'Creativity & Philosophy' special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the theoretical Humanities April 2006. ISBN 1-84465028-6.
- Colman, F.J. 'The Sounds of Vision: Spectatorship and Aural Perception', The Refractory: Entertainment Media Journal. Vol. 4, 2003. Fully refereed, ISSN: 1447-4905
- http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au//journalissues/vol4/vol4.html
- Colman, F., & A. Ndalianis eds. 'Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer' The Refractory: Entertainment Media Journal. Vol. 2, March 2003. Fully refereed, ISSN: 1447-4905
- http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au//journalissues/vol2/vol2.html
Editorial
- Editorial board member of The Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media. Fully refereed screen media journal, The University of Melbourne, ISSN: 1447-4905 ,http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au//home/EdBoard.html
- Editorial board member of Transformations, Fully refereed theoretical humanities journal, University of Central Queensland http://transformations.cqu.edu.au/journal/editorial_board.shtml
Book chapters (from 2002)
- Colman, F.J., (2007) "Affective Terrorism", Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Social Issues. P.Malins and A. Hickey-Moody (eds). London: Palgrave Press. ISBN 0230506925
- Colman, F. J. (2007) 'Affective Intensity: Art as Sensorial Form', in Colman, F.J. et.al. eds., Sensorium: art-aesthetics-philosophy. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1-84718-334-4.
- Colman, F.J. (2005) "Cinema: movement-image-recognition-time", Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, C.J.Stivale (ed.) London: Acumen. pp. 141-156. ISBN 1-84465028-6.
Journal articles (from 2002)
- Colman, F.J. (2006) "Affective entropy: Art as Differential Form" Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, no. 11.1 Routledge. F.Colman and C.Stivale (eds.) Volume 11, Issue 1 April 2006, pages 169 - 178.
- Colman, F.J. and Stivale, C.J. (2006) "A Creative Life" Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 11.1. Routledge. F.Colman and C.Stivale (eds.) Colman 50 % contribution
- Colman, F.J. (2005) "Hit me harder: the tranversality of becoming-adolescent", Guattari and Gender special issue of Women and Culture (ed. J. Watson), London: Routledge. (vol. 16, no. 3, winter 2005) ISSN o957-4042 pp356-371.
- Colman, F.J. (2005) "Deleuze's Kiss: the sensory pause of screen affect", Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy. University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, Vol 16 pp,101-113. ISBN 1 897646127
- Colman, F.J. and McCrea, C., (2005) "The Digital Maypole" special edition of the Fibreculture Journal 'Mobility, New Social Intensities and the Coordinates of Digital Networks'. Edited by Andrew Murphie, Larissa Hjorth, Gillian Fuller and Sandra Buckley. pp.1-5.
- ISSN 1449-1443. Colman 50% contribution. http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue6/issue6_colman.html
- Colman, F.J. (2004) "Hope: An e-modulating motion of deterritorialization" Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture Vol. 1, No.3 http://www.drainmag.com/index_dete.htm
- Colman, F.J. (2003) "The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: questioning the post-Christian bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George". "Uncanny Spaces and Gods in the Multiverse", Volume 3, 2003.
- The Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media. ISSN: 1447-4905 http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au//journalissues/vol3/vol3.html
- Colman, F.J. (2002), "Passaic Boys are Hell: Robert Smithson's Tag as Temporal and Spatial Marker of the Geographical Self", in "Autobiogeography" considering space and identity", Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, ISSN 1547-4348, Summer 2002: Volume 2, Number 3, http://www.reconstruction.ws/home2.htm.
Book reviews and ciné-notations (from 2002)
- Colman, F.J. 'In search of anxious time: Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts by David Martin-Jones', Senses of Cinema, July 2007.
- Colman, F.J. 'Thinking in Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy
- and Marlene Dietrich by Catherine Constable' Senses of Cinema, June 2006, http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/books/06/40/thinking-in-images.html
- Colman, F.J. 'Painting Film with Velvet Sounds: David Lynch's Lost Highway', Senses of Cinema, Cinémathèque Annotations on Film May 2006, http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/06/40/lost-highway.html
- Colman, F.J. "The Maggot and the Velfaerdsdanskere: Jack Stevenson's Lar's Von Trier" (Book Review). Metro Screen Magazine 138, 2003.
Other publications (from 2002)
- Colman, F.J. (2006) 'Affective Womensense' Feminist Actions Exhibition Catalogue. Spacement Gallery, Watsons Place, Melbourne.
- Colman, F.J. (2002) 'John Mackinnon's Horror', John Mackinnon: Up the River. Exhibition Catalogue. Horti Hall Gallery, Melbourne.
- Colman, F.J. (2002) 'Skeptical (Part 2)', First Floor Final Exhibition. Exhibition Catalogue, First Floor Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Dictionary entries
- Colman, F.J. (2005) "Art", The Deleuze Dictionary, A. Parr (ed.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp.15-16. ISBN 074861898 8
- Colman, F.J. (2005) "Affect", The Deleuze Dictionary, A. Parr (ed.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 11-13. ISBN 074861898 8
- Colman, F.J. (2005) "Henri Bergson", The Deleuze Dictionary, A. Parr (ed.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp.26-28. ISBN 074861898 8
- Colman, F.J. (2005) "Crystal", The Deleuze Dictionary, A. Parr (ed.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 074861898 8
- Colman, F.J. (2005) "Feminism", The Deleuze Dictionary, A. Parr (ed.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. : pp. 100-102. ISBN 074861898 8
- Colman, F.J. (2005) "Rhizome", The Deleuze Dictionary, A. Parr (ed.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. : pp. 231-233. ISBN 074861898 8