John McConchie
BA (Hons), MA ( Flinders University)
Lecturer in Screen Studies
Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Creative Arts
John graduated from Flinders Drama Centre program, specialising in directing for film and theatre. His MA research thesis examined the role of sadism in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. He teaches in the Screen Studies major sequence, including a topic on Hitchcock (under Advanced Issues in Screen Theory), as well as Bachelor of Creative Arts screen production topics.
Teaching:
SCRN1001: Introduction to Screen Studies 2
SCRN1070 & 1071: Production techniques & script analysis
SCRN2008: Popular genre
SCRN3002: Cinema & fantasy
SCRN3004: Advanced Issues in Screen theory
CREA3000: Practicum/Project in creative arts
Research interests
John has co-authored, with Dr. Karen Vered, an article on the Logie Awards (Continuum), as well as a co-authored paper on Super Nanny, again with Dr. Vered, delivered at Consoling Passions: Conference on Television and Feminism in 1998.
Other research interests include:
Screen theory and psychoanalysis
Popular genres in film and television
Current supervision:
Principal Supervisor
Jen Seifert - Science fiction... does not exist (PhD)
Joint Co-Supervisor
Daniel Principe, Code Unknown: Authorship and Film Theory (PhD)
Ben Kooyman - Shakespeare, Ideology, Myth, Cinema: A Study In Dissemination & Rhizomatci Restoration (PhD)
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