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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON WOMEN IN FILM & TV by LISA FRENCH

BOOKS

French, L, (ed.) Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image In Australia, Damned Publishing, Melbourne, 2003.

BOOK CHAPTERS

French, L., ˜Shopping for Identity: Postmodern Flâneuses in Sex and the City and In The Cut, in Alison Hume (ed.) Consumerism on TV: Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present, Ashgate, Surrey: UK, 2015, pp.147-162. ISBN 9781472447562

French, L., ˜The Screenwriting of Jane Campion: Female-centered Stories, characters and perspectives in Nelmes, J. & Selbo, J. (eds.), Women Screenwriters: an International Guide, Palgrave MacMillian, 2015, pp. 179-185.

French, L. & Poole, M., ˜Women Writers on the Australian Screen in Nelmes, J. & Selbo, J. (eds.), Women Screenwriters: an International Guide, Palgrave MacMillian, 2015, pp. 163-169. ISBN 978-1-137-31236-5

French, L., ‘Treading Water but fit for the marathon’, in Carilli, T. & Campbell, J. (eds.) Challenging Images of Women in the Media: Reinventing Women's Lives, Lexington Press, Langham: Maryland, 2012, pp. 35-46. My article has been reviewed and accepted. This book received 100 submissions, and only 17 chapters were accepted (17% acceptance rate). The publisher is ranked by the ‘Sense Ranking of Academic Publishers’ as: ‘decent international publishers and excellent national publishers’. ISBN-10: 0739176986/ISBN-13:978-0739176986.

French, L, ‘Through an Australian Lens: Explorations of India in Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke!’ in Rick Hosking & Amit Sawal (eds.), Wanderings In India: Australian Perceptions, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Melbourne, 2012, pp. 150-165. ISBN:978-1-921867-32-3. http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/Wanderings+in+India%3A+Australian+Perceptions/178/OEBPS/c11.htm

French, L., ‘A View From The West: The Cinema of Ana Kokkinos’, in Mitchell, N. World Film Locations: Melbourne, Intellect, 2012. ISBN 9781841506401, pp.66-68.

French, L, ‘On Their Own Merits: Women and the Moving Image in Australia’, in French, L (ed.) Womenvision, Women and the Moving Image in Australia, writer & editor, Damned Publishing, 2003, pp. 11–30

French, L, ‘Short Circuit: Shorts and Australian Women Filmmakers’ in French, L (ed.), Womenvision, Women and the Moving Image in Australia, writer & editor, Damned Publishing, 2003, pp. 105–122

 

BOOK CHAPTERS ACCEPTED/FORTHCOMING

French, L., Women in the director's chair: the female gaze in documentary film, in Boel Ulfsdotter & Anna Backman Rogers (eds.) Female Authorship & Documentary Film, Edinburgh University Press (EUP), 2018, pp.9-21 (forthcoming).

French, L., Jane Campion ~ Girlshine and the Local/Global Auteur in Felicity Collins, Jane Landman & Susan Bye (eds.) A Companion to Australian Cinema Wiley-Blackwell, 2017(forthcoming).


REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

French, L., ˜Does Gender Matter? Lumina: Australian Journal of Screen Arts and Business, No. 14, May 2015, pp. 139-153.

French, L, ˜The International Reception of Australian Women Filmmakers Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol 28, Issue 5, 2014, pp.654-665:

French, L , ‘Gender then, gender now: surveying women’s participation in Australian film and television industries’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, March 2014, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 188-200. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2014.888040

French, L., ˜Ana Kokkinos, Senses of Cinema, Issue 69, December 2013:

French, L, ˜Solrun Hoaas 1943“ 2009, Senses of Cinema, Issue 54, April 2010:

French, L, ˜An Analysis of Nice Coloured Girls (Tracey Moffatt, 1987), Senses of Cinema, no. 5, April 2000

French, L, ‘Romance, Fantasy, and Female Sexuality in Feeling Sexy’, Metro: Film, Television, Radio & Multimedia Journal, no. 123, 2000, pp. 13–17.

French, L, ‘Interpretations of Amelia Rose Towers’, Senses of Cinema, no. 1, December 1999, http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/1/amelia.html

French, L, Love Serenade: Is It a Feminist Film?’, Metro, Film, Television, Radio & Multimedia Journal, no. 112, 1997, pp. 78–82.


RESEARCH REPORT

Women in the Victorian film, television and related industries: Research report

This research project investigates the quality of the working lives of Victorian women in the film, television and related industries (including digital media and games). Through a survey of 135 people working in the Victorian audiovisual industries (conducted in November 2010 and collated finally in the report released in 2012), this research examined the participation of women in these industries and has gathered data on areas such as: issues effecting women, the progress of women in various sectors, training, career pathways, employment security and mobility.

Link to the survey report: http://www.lisa-french.com/WIFT%20Final%20Survey%20Report.pdf

Suggested citation: French, L. (2012) Women in the Victorian Film, Television and Related Industries, RMIT, Melbourne.

Journal article drawing on this report: French, L , ˜Gender then, gender now: surveying women's participation in Australian film and television industries, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, March 2014, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 188-200.

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