Processes of Signification Emerging Research Group (PSERG)
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| The research of PSERG seeks to expand conceptions of the processes of signification and meaning-making within contemporary culture. In doing so, the intellectual and practical outcomes of the research enable informed understandings of the ways in which signification functions in relation to the construction of experience and circulation of meaning within culture. The Group's research applies innovative theoretical approaches derived from, and informed by, perspectives from historical studies, sociology, media and communication studies, and visual culture. Exploring the intersections between these fields, PSERG pursues a distinct and cutting-edge research agenda, with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration in a productive and collegial environment. | About PSERGPSERG member profiles |
Books
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Baudrillard Reframed |
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Contemporary Film Directors D.A. Pennebaker Keith Beattie This volume is the first book-length study of the extensive career and prolific works of D.A. Pennebaker, one of the pioneers of direct cinema, a documentary form that emphasizes observation and a straightforward portrayal of events. The University of Illinois Press |
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Documentary Screens: Non-Fiction Film and Television |
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Albert and David Maysles: interviews Keith Beattie In Albert and David Maysles: Interviews, editor Keith Beattie has compiled a wide-ranging collection in which the brothers, together and separately, discuss all aspects of their filmmaking--the nature of collaboration, technical matters, contextual considerations, and more. |
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The Scar That Binds American Culture and the Vietnam War Keith Beattie At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor of "the wound that will not heal. NYU Press |
Edited Books (A7)
Chalkley, Tony, Adam Brown, Toija Cinque, Brad Warren, Mitchell Hobbs and Mark Finn, Communication, New Media and Everyday Life, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2011.
Chapters (B1)
Brown, Adam, 'Screening Women's Complicity in the Holocaust: The Problems of Judgement and Representation,' in Vice, S. and Adams, J. (eds.), Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Literature and Film (in press).
Brown, Adam and Deb Waterhouse-Watson, 'Representing Rape in Holocaust Film: Exhibiting the Eroticised Body for the Camera's Gaze,' Aftermath (in press).
Brown, Adam, 'Narrative, Communication Tools, and Meaning Making: "Tell Me a Story!",' in Chalkley, T., Brown, A., Cinque, T., Warren, B., Hobbs, M. and Finn, M., Communication, New Media and Everyday Life, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2011, pp. 32-40.
Brown, Adam, 'Ideology and Meaning in Film: Life in Surround Sound,' in Chalkley, T., Brown, A., Cinque, T., Warren, B., Hobbs, M. and Finn, M., Communication, New Media and Everyday Life, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2011, pp. 111-22.
Brown, Adam, 'Social Networking and Social Norms: "Be Nice or I'll Delete You,"' in Chalkley, T., Brown, A., Cinque, T., Warren, B., Hobbs, M. and Finn, M., Communication, New Media and Everyday Life, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2011, pp. 165-75.
Brown, Adam, 'Confronting "Choiceless Choices" in Holocaust Videotestimonies: Judgement, "Privileged" Jews, and the Role of the Interviewer,' in Broderick, M. and Traverso, A (eds.), Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media, Routledge, London, 2011, pp. 79-90.
Toffoletti, Kim, 'On footballers behaving badly', in Winkler, M (ed.), 110 Percent: Great Australian Sporting Speeches, Melbourne: Penguin/Viking, 2011, pp.203-211.
Brown, Adam, 'The Trauma of "Choiceless Choices": The Paradox of Judgement in Primo Levi's "Grey Zone,"' in Sharpe, M. Noonan, M. and Freddi, J. (eds.), Trauma, History, Philosophy, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle, UK, 2007, pp. 142-63.
Journal articles (C1)
Beattie, Keith, '"Morning of the Earth" (a film within the Kodak Atlab Collection of the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra),' Metro: Film, Television, Radio, Multimedia, no. 169, 2011.
Brown, Adam, 'Narratives of Judgement: Representations of "Privileged" Jews in Holocaust Documentaries,' LISA e-journal - Special Issue: Narrative practices and documentary film-making in the English-speaking world: From propaganda to dissent (in press).
Rutherford, Leonie and Adam Brown, 'The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Multiplatform Projects: Industrial Logics of Children's Content Provision in the Digital Television Era,' Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (in press).
Brown, Adam, 'Revisiting the "Victim"/"Perpetrator" Divide: "Privileged" Jews, the Holocaust, and the "Grey Zone,"' History Australia, December 2011 (in press).
Waterhouse-Watson, Deb and Adam Brown, 'Women in the Grey Zone: Ambiguity, Complicity and Rape Culture,' M/C: A Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 14 no. 5, October 2011.
Brown, Adam and Leonie Rutherford, 'Postcolonial Play: Constructions of Multicultural Identities in ABC Children's Projects,' M/C: A Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 14, no. 2, May 2011.
Bullen, Elizabeth, Toffoletti, Kim and Liz Parsons 'Doing What your Big Sister Does: Sex, Postfeminism and the Teen Chick lit Series Novel,' Gender and Education, vol. 23, no. 4, 2011: 497-511.
Mewett, Peter and Kim Toffoletti 'Finding Footy: Female Fan Socialisation and Australian Rules Football,' Sport in Society, vol.14, no. 5, 2011: 670-684.
Brown, Adam, 'Beyond "Good" and "Evil": Breaking Down Binary Oppositions in Holocaust Representations of "Privileged" Jews,' Compass - Special Issue, October 2010.
Brown, Adam, 'Beyond "Good" and "Evil": Breaking Down Binary Oppositions in Holocaust Representations of "Privileged" Jews,' History Compass, vol. 8, no. 5, May 2010, pp. 407-18.
Brown, Adam, 'Confronting "Choiceless Choices" in Holocaust Videotestimonies: Judgement, "Privileged" Jews, and the Role of the Interviewer,' Continuum: Journal of Media and Communication Studies - Special Issue: Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering, vol. 24, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 79-90.
Brown, Adam, 'Trauma and Holocaust Videotestimony: The Intersection of History, Memory and Judgment in the Interview Process,' Traumatology: An International Journal - Special Issue: History, Memory, and Trauma, vol. 15, no. 4, December 2009, pp. 44-54.
Brown, Adam, 'Marginalising the Marginal in Holocaust Films: Fictional Representations of Jewish Policemen,' Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, vol. 15, 2009.
Brown, Adam, 'Traumatic Memory and Holocaust Testimony: Passing Judgement in Representations of Chaim Rumkowski,' Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, no. 15, June 2008, pp. 128-44.
Working papers (A6)
Rutherford, Leonie and Adam Brown, 'Multiplatform Innovation and Participatory Citizenship: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Digital Children's Television Projects,' Citizenship and Globalisation Research Papers, Vol. 2, No. 3, October 2011, <http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/ccg/cgrp-pdf/ccg-rps-vol2-no3-2011.pdf>.
Reviews (C4)
Brown, Adam, 'Children and Youth in the Digital Media Culture: From a Nordic Perspective,' Media International Australia, no. 140, August 2011, p. 171.
Brown, Adam, 'Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms,' Media International Australia, no. 140, August 2011, p. 187.
Brown, Adam, 'The Rejection of Reason and the Necessity of Religion: Faith, Politics and the Religious Right' (F. G. Bailey's God-Botherers and Other True-Believers: Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious Right), H-German, H-Net Reviews, June 2009 <http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24747>.
Brown, Adam, 'Beside the Twisted Road: Mapping Nazi Germany's Plans for an Occupied Soviet Union' (Alex J. Kay's Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941), H-Genocide, H-Net Reviews, September 2008, < http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23033>.
Brown, Adam, 'From Complicity to Denial: Exposing the History of Conservation in Nazi Germany' (Frank Uekoetter's The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany), H-German, H-Net Reviews, June 2008, <http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=284661219080525>.
Brown, Adam, 'Bounty Hunters in the Grey Zone: Dutch Collaboration during the Holocaust' (Ad van Liempt's Hitler's Bounty Hunters: The Betrayal of the Jews), H-German, H-Net Reviews, April 2007, <http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=171661183834940>.
Brown, Adam, 'Filmic Persuasions: Exposing the Ideological Role of Genre Films in the Third Reich' (Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien's Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich), H-German, H-Net Reviews, October 2006, <http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=260241165245570>.
Refereed Conference Papers (E1)
Brown, Adam, '"Privileged" Jews, Holocaust Representation and the "Limits" of Judgement: The Case of Raul Hilberg,' in E. Smith (ed.), Europe's Expansions and Contractions: Proceedings of the XVIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians (Adelaide, July 2009), Unley: Australian Humanities Press, pp. 63-86.
Non-Refereed Conference Papers (E2)
Brown, Adam, 'Bridging Evil and Humanity: Representing the "Grey Zone" in Holocaust Film,' 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January, pp. 460-70.
Minor Original Creative Works (J2)
Brown, Adam, 'Oedipus Today,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), World Enough, Mattoid/Grange & Deakin University, 2010, pp. 38-39.
Brown, Adam, 'December 1938,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Border Land, Mattoid/ Grange & Deakin University, 2009, pp. 51-52.
Brown, Adam, 'Back and Forth,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Chance Encounters, Mattoid/ Grange & Deakin University, 2008, pp. 41-42.
Brown, Adam, 'Facing Up to Things,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Chance Encounters, Mattoid/ Grange & Deakin University, 2008, pp. 43-44.
Brown, Adam, 'So far from the sunlit mountain,' in Thomason, B. J. (ed.), Tributaries, Geelong Writers Inc., Geelong, 2007, p. 88.
Brown, Adam, 'The cloud,' in Thomason, B. J. (ed.), Tributaries, Geelong Writers Inc., Geelong, 2007, pp. 92-95.
Brown, Adam, 'Santa's Place in the 21st Century,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Altered Parts, Deakin University, Geelong, 2007, pp. 53-55.
Brown, Adam, 'Portrait of a Sister,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Groundwork, Deakin University, Geelong, 2006, pp. 72-73.
Brown, Adam, 'Fragments,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Rags of Time, Deakin University, Geelong, 2005, p. 33.
Brown, Adam, 'A Change of Heart,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Conjurings: The Magician's Art, Deakin University, Geelong, 2003, pp. 28-30.
Poems (J3)
Brown, Adam, 'Enigmatic moments' in Edwards, B. (ed.), DLS Writers' Anthology, Mattoid/Grange & Deakin University, 2012 (in press).
Brown, Adam, 'Enigma of evil' in Edwards, B. (ed.), DLS Writers' Anthology, Mattoid/Grange & Deakin University, 2012 (in press).
Brown, Adam, 'Proposal on the Highlands,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), World Enough, Mattoid/Grange & Deakin University, 2010, pp. 40-45.
Brown, Adam, 'A cold coming we had of it,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Border Land, Mattoid/ Grange & Deakin University, 2009, p. 50.
Brown, Adam, 'Goodbye, Emily Dickinson,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Border Land, Mattoid/ Grange & Deakin University, 2009, pp. 52.
Brown, Adam, 'Letter Home,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Border Land, Mattoid/ Grange & Deakin University, 2009, pp. 52-53.
Brown, Adam, 'Happiness,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Border Land, Mattoid/ Grange & Deakin University, 2009, p. 53.
Brown, Adam, 'See What I See,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Chance Encounters, Mattoid/ Grange & Deakin University, 2008, pp. 38-39.
Brown, Adam, 'Naught remains of fire and ash,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Chance Encounters, Mattoid/ Grange & Deakin University, 2008, p. 40.
Brown, Adam, 'I remember,' in Thomason, B. J. (ed.), Tributaries, Geelong Writers Inc., Geelong, 2007, p. 89.
Brown, Adam, 'O mask of day,' in Thomason, B. J. (ed.), Tributaries, Geelong Writers Inc., Geelong, 2007, pp. 90-91.
Brown, Adam, 'Skeleton in the Closet,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Altered Parts, Deakin University, Geelong, 2007, pp. 47-49.
Brown, Adam, 'Santa is Dead,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Altered Parts, Deakin University, Geelong, 2007, pp. 50-52.
Brown, Adam, 'An Evaluation of Shakespeare,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Groundwork, Deakin University, Geelong, 2006, pp. 69-71.
Brown, Adam, 'The Path Least Travelled,' in Edwards, B. (ed.), Groundwork, Deakin University, Geelong, 2006, p. 74.
Original Poetry Reading (JL4)
Brown, Adam, 'Like a sharp bead of light passing through my skull,' 'Mistakes,' 'Skeleton in the closet,' 'Skull of Adam,' Words at the Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, December 2006.
2011 Conference presentations
Brown, Adam, 'Testimony and the Question of "Guilt": The Case of Traudl Junge,' Testimony, Witness, Authority: The Politics or Poetics of Experience, The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media (OWOVM) Conference on Poetics and Discourse, Victoria University, Melbourne, December 2011.
Brown, Adam, 'Against Schindler's List: A "Third Wave" in Holocaust World Cinema,' World Cinema Now, Second Biannual Conference from Research Unit in Film Culture and Theory, Monash University, Melbourne, September 2011.
Rutherford, Leonie and Adam Brown, 'Multiplatformed Spaces, Multicultural Places: Recruiting Child Citizens at the ABC,' Communication on the Edge: Shifting Boundaries and Identities, Australian and New Zealand Communication Associaton (ANZCA), University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, July 2011.
Brown, Adam, 'Multiplatforming Documentary: New Media Innovation in the Holocaust Museum,' Communication on the Edge: Shifting Boundaries and Identities, Australian and New Zealand Communication Associaton (ANZCA), University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, July 2011.
Brown, Adam and Deb Waterhouse-Watson, 'Sexing Up the Holocaust: Exhibiting the Eroticised Body for the Camera's Gaze,' Aftermath: The Politics of Memory: The 2nd Jan Randa International Conference in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne, June 2011.
Brown, Adam, '"This Band of Murderous Little Bastards...: "Native Police," the "Grey Zone" and Australia's Genocidal Past,' Aftermath: The Politics of Memory: The 2nd Jan Randa International Conference in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne, June 2011.
