It’s impossible to see a film with the hype of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby without preconceptions. The build-up to this film has been overwhelming with trailers splashed across screens everywhere…
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Science seems to be failing to change the minds of those who are sceptical about the reality of anthropogenic climate change. Chasing Ice - a film by Jeff Orlowski, playing in Australia currently - tries…
When a drug returns more than a billion dollars in sales, it hits blockbuster status. So, notching up over US$11 billion in 2011 antidepressants are bona fide showstoppers. But these little pills have…
During our lifetime, we face a series of developmental tasks that are universal to the human condition. The last of these stages comes in our final years, when we face our mortality, reflect back upon…
From Psycho onward, film portrayals of the mentally ill have contributed to the stigma faced by people with these conditions. Films tend to create and reinforce stereotypes of the mentally ill as “homicidal…
The recently released film Life of Pi directed by Ang Lee and based on Yann Martel’s novel of the same name, is a fable for our climate change times. Much of the plot involves the struggles of a teenage…
What to Expect When You’re Expecting is basically a 1980s frat film, complete with busty girls in bikinis, golf buggies crashing into swimming pools, and vomit and fart jokes – all window dressed with…
All over the planet, a new wave of exploration and exploitation is taking place. Bioprospectors are searching for new and useful biological samples and compounds from previously unstudied animals and plants…
One touch and you’re infected. By the next day your muscles ache, you have a fever and the beginnings of a headache. You don’t know it yet, but you only have a one in three chance of survival and you’ve…
Everyone loves a good storm. Rolling thunder, a spectacular light show and fat drops of rain that make the earth smell like summer. Although thunderstorms are far more belligerent than your average cloud…
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Robotics & AI, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor, Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor and Cinema and Screen Studies Discipline Leader, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Media, University of Adelaide
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
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Lecturer in Screen Media, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Adjunct associate, Flinders University
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Lecturer (casual) at Sydney College of the Arts; Adjunct Lecturer Auro University, University of Sydney
