Mike Walsh

MA (LaTrobe University); MA; PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies

Mike Walsh has degrees in film and media from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, LaTrobe University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "The Internationalism of the U.S. Cinema: United Artists' Foreign Distribution Activities, 1919-1930" was completed at the University of Wisconsin in 1998. As well as lecturing at Flinders, Mike is a consulting programmer for the Adelaide Film Festival and the writer and editor of its catalogue. His professional memberships include the Film Critics Circle of Australia and the Media Resource Centre of South Australia (where he is a board member and chair of the Members Exhibition Group). He is on the editorial boards of Metro (the journal of the Australian Teachers of Media) and RealTime. He was also co-ordinating editor of The Velvet Light Trap from 1993 to 1996. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Executive Chair of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand.

At Flinders, Mike has taught in and co-ordinated the first-year introductory courses and has also taught courses in Asian Cinema, Globalisation and the Media, Documentary: Theory and Practice, Narrative and Storytelling, Film Authorship, History of Film Style.

Teaching:

SCRN1000 Intro to Screen Studies 1 
GLOB3001 Media, Power and Globalisation
SCRN2002 National Cinemas
SCRN3010 Screen Culture Curation and Criticism
SCRN3012 Independent Research Project in Screen

Research interests:

Mike has contributed chapters to several anthologies including Post-Theory, Twin Peaks: Australian and New Zealand Cinema, and Young and Innocent: British Cinema from 1896 to 1930, as well as articles in Film History, Asian Cinema, The Velvet Light Trap and Screening the Past. With Richard Maltby, Kate Bowles (University of Wollongong) and Deb Verhoeven (RMIT) he holds an ARC Discovery Grant for a project called Regional Markets & Local Audiences: a history of Australian Cinema Consumption. His areas of research interest include Asian Cinemas, early cinema, the political economy of the Australian cinema, and the historical development of film theory, including historical poetics and cognitive theories.

Current principal supervisions: 

Tom Redwood - Critical analysis of Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky (PhD)
Cole Larsen - new media / narrative convergence (MA)
Tom Young - Development of a model for the production of a low budget feature film in a tertiary education context (PhD)
Peter Gravestock - The Evolution of Editing Techniques in the Wuxia Pian (chivalrous swordplay film) from the 1960s "New Era" to the Contemporary Era of Computer Generated Imaging (PhD)
Simon Howson - History of  Widescreen Aesthetics (PhD)
Martin Potter - Models for producing participatory screen media (MA)
Dylan Walker - Australian Film Industry History (PhD)

Supervisory interests:

Film history
The nexus between production practices and film theory
Narrative
Asian Cinema
Australian Cinema

Curriculum Vitae