Dr Wendy Haslem
Lecturer, Cinema Studies + Cinema Management
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Coordinator: Masters in Cinema Management
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Coordinator: Honours in Cinema and Cultural Studies
Qualifications
Ba (Hons) Cinema Studies (La Trobe University), PhD - Cinema Studies (La Trobe University)
Biography
Wendy Haslem researches and publishes on the evolution of the Gothic from silent cinema to new media. She is interested in the historical links between American and Japanese cinemas, Maya Deren's experimental cinema and Australian film. She is a co-editor for the anthology Super/Heroes: From Hercules to Superman (2007).
In collaboration with Associate Professor Angela Ndalianis, she has been awarded an ITMM Grant to create The Godzilla Project - an interactive, multi media project that encourages students to engage with complex issues of film and history analytically and creatively.
Current research
- Gothic Projections: From Méliès to New Media an investigation of the evolution of the Gothic narrative and aesthetic from silent film to digital media.
- 'Hiraki Sawa: Miniature Worlds in Domestic Spaces' (forthcoming).
Teaching
- 107-132: Introduction to Cinema Studies
- 107-540: Hitchcock, Film & Art
- 107-083: Film Noir: Style & History
- 107-590: Film Production From Script to Screen
- 107-542: Work Experience Placement
Knowledge transfer
- Editorial Board - The Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media
- Conference Organisation - Holy Men In Tights! A Super Heroes Conference (2005)
Publications
Books
- Super/Heroes (2007) eds. Wendy Haslem, Angela Ndalianis, Christopher Mackie, Washington: New Academia Press.
Exhibition Catalogues
- Experimenta: Playground, St Kilda, Australia: Experimenta Media Arts, 2007.
Book chapters
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‘Women in Australian Film’, Women in Cinema (forthcoming, 2009).
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'Perception is Reality: The Rise and Fall of Professional Wrestlers', Super/Heroes: From Hercules to Superman, edited by Wendy Haslem, Angela Ndalianis & Christopher Mackie, 2007, p.181-195.
- 'The Goddess of 1967', 24 Frames: The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand, London: Wallflower Press, 2007, p.195-201.
Journal articles
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‘Gothic Spectrality in New Media Art’, The Irish Journal of Gothic Film and Media, November, 2008.
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‘Going Places Sitting Down: Micrographia & the Triptych’, The Journal of Computers in Entertainment, (forthcoming, Jan/March, 2009).
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‘Exhibiting Miniature Memories: The McCoy’s Electronic Sculptures’, AntiThesis, (forthcoming, March, 2009).
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‘Maya Deren : the high priestess of independent cinema’, Senses of Cinema, November, 2003: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/deren.html (This article has since been translated into Persian by Mohsen Ghaderi, a film studies scholar at The Sorbonne, Paris).
- 'L'Atalante' in CTEQ: Annotations on Film - Senses of Cinema, November, 2006.
- 'Sorry, Wrong Number' in CTEQ: Annotations on Film - Senses of Cinema, November, 2005.
- 'Neon Gothic: Lost in Translation', Senses of Cinema, issue 31, April/June, 2004.
- '"Every Home Should Have One of You": The Serial Killer Disguised as the Perfect Husband' The Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, Vol.2, 2003, p.1-4.
- 'Maya Deren: The High Priestess of Experimental Film', Senses of Cinema: Great Director's Database, 2003.
- 'Romance and Paranoia in The Big Sleep' in Screen Education, issue 29, August, 2002, p.164-169.
- 'The Others and Panic Room: Home, Sinister Home', Real Time, June, 2002.
- 'Desire on the Small Screen', Real Time, April, 2002.
Conference papers
- "Every Home Should Have One of You": The Serial Killer Disguised as the Perfect Husband' Buffy Symposium, School of Art History, Cinema Studies, Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne, 2003.
Reviews
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‘Setting the Scene’, Real Time, February, 2009.
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‘Place-Hampi’, Real Time, February, 2009.
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‘Playing Biennially: Experimenta Playground’, Artlink, 27 (3), 2007: 54-56.
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‘Re;Search’, Real Time, January, 2006.
- 'Experimenta: Playground', in Artlink (August, 2007).
- 'Jack of All Trades', Australian Book Review, November, 2005.
Media articles
- 'Double Indemnity' Insert Essay Accompanying the dvd Release, Madman Director's Suite.
Research Partnerships & Professional Associations:
- Experimenta - Global Roaming Project – presenting and creating digital art programs in regional and remote communities in Australia.
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Australian Film Institute
- The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
- The Melbourne Museum
- The Filmmaking Summer School
- GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane)
- The Sendai Mediatheque (Japan)
- The Society For Cinema & Media Studies (USA)