Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Communication and Creative Arts


   A/Prof. Sean Redmond

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Position Associate Professor in Media and Communication
Email s.redmond@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Communication & Creative Arts
Phone +61 3 924 43931
Campus Burwood
Location Burwood
Role and profile
Teaching responsibilities For 2013: ALC706: Culture, Communication and Globalisation: Critical Practices
In/ And Local Cultures. I am currently supervising seven PhDs, two in the area of
celebrity and persona, but welcome interest for all of my research interests listed
above.
Research interests I research in the areas of stardom and celebrity; genre studies, and science fiction
cinema in particular; film authorship; film sound; film and affect; Asian Cinema;
and whiteness studies.

I edit the journal Celebrity Studies, short-listed for the best new academic journal
2011. I chaired the Inaugural Celebrity Studies Conference in December 2012. My
most recent monograph, The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood, was
recently published by Wallflower Press in (2013). My monograph on Celebrity and
the Media will be published by Palgrave in September 2013. My book, Liquid
Space: Digital Age Science Fiction will be published by I.B. Taurus in 2014.
Current research projects With David Marshall I am editing A Companion to Celebrity, for Wiley-Blackwell.
With Brady Hammond, I am co-editing a Special Edition of the journal Continuum,
on Cinema at the Shoreline. I am curating a Sounding Science Fiction exhibition. I
am co-chairing the Eye-Tracking and the Movie Image Research Group, looking at
where, what, why and how people see.

I am a regular blogger for CST Online.
Awards Arts and Education Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012
Qualifications PhD The Death of Whiteness (University of Lancaster)
MA Film and Television (University of Warwick)
BA hons (University of Lancaster)
Memberships Editorial Board member of Illusions;
Editorial Review Member of Continuum's Film Authorship Series.
Conferences September 2011: 'Fast Cinema', delivered at the World Cinema Now conference
held at Monash University;
November 2011: Invited paper: 'Celebrity Aesthetics' at the What is there left to
say about Celebrity Conference, held at the University of Queensland;
December 2011: Keynote Address:'Performing Age in the Star Body of Mickey
Rourke', at the Age Spots and Spotlights: Celebrity, Performance and Ageing
Conference, Birbeck, London;
July 2012: 'It is a Miracle to Me: Cate Blanchett and the Aura of Perfected, Female
Whiteness', at the Images of Whiteness 2nd Global Conference, Mansfield College,
Oxford, 7-9th July 2012;
Research link View Deakin associated research data
Additional URLs

Celebrity Studies Journal Conference

Television Wetnesss

Disgusting Television

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22nd April 2013