Australian Genre Film

Kelly McWilliam is an Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Southern Queensland and the Immediate Past President of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA). Mark David Ryan is an Associate Professor in Screen and Media Studies and a Chief Investigator for the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology. He was the President of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAANZ) between 2015 and 2018.

1. Australian Film Genre Studies

Mark David Ryan and Kelly McWilliam

2. The Action Genre and the ‘International Turn’ in Australian Cinema

Amanda Howell

3. ‘Beethoven had his Critics, too…’: The Australian Biopic in the Twenty-First Century

Adrian Danks

4. A Seamless Wedding: Comedy, Diversity, and the International

Lesley Speed

5. New Australian Crime Drama

Greg Dolgopolov

6. A Monstrous Landscape Filled with Killer Animals and Madmen: Tropes of Contemporary Australian Horror Movies

Mark David Ryan

7. The Musical in Australia: Moving Minorities into the Mainstream

Liz Giuffre

8. Traversing Genre: The Australian Road Movie

Deborah Thomas

9. Courting the Romance

Kelly McWilliam

10. Looking to the Future: Three Tendencies in Australian Science Fiction Cinema since 2008

Andrew James Couzens

11. ‘Growing Up Was Never Easy’: Coming of Age in the Teen Film

Kelly McWilliam

12. Sun-lit Noir: Australian Thrillers

Jonathan Rayner

13. A Wider Angle: Australia’s War Films of the New Millenia

Daniel Reynaud

14. Questioning the Australian Western

Grayson Cooke