Mick Broderick

Dr Mick Broderick is Associate Professor in Media Analysis.

Deputy Director, National Academy of Screen & Sound (NASS) http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/index.htm

Co-Convenor: Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering, International Conference (Perth, Western Australia, 2-4 December 2008)
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/trauma

Qualifications & memberships:

PhD (UTS)
MA prelim (La Trobe)
BA (RMIT)

Teaching areas:

Screen Media
Cultural Policy

Research areas:

National cinemas/media industries (Australian, US, Japanese); government and institutional global media policy; nuclearism and apocalypse as a cultural phenomenon; trauma and representation; film history; non-fiction and documentary forms; film genre; critical theory; narrative; cold war television and film history; gender and masculinity; interactive media technologies.

Biography:

Mick Broderick is Associate Professor and Research Coordinator in the School of Media, Communications & Culture at Murdoch University, where he is Deputy Director of the National Academy of Screen & Sound (NASS). He has held elected positions on the national management committees of the ARC’s Cultural Research Network  (CRN) in 2004-06 and the Australian Screen Production Educators Research Association (ASPERA) in 2006. He has been a screen culture assessor for ScreenWest and was invited in 2007 to the inaugural board of Revelation, Perth’s International Film Festival. Broderick has twice been a peer judge for the West Australian Screen Awards (WASAs) and was invited as the sole academic representative for the 2004 Australian International Documentary Conference. From 1991-2000 he worked within the Cultural & Industry Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission. His media research, scriptwriting and production work has won competitive grants from the Australia Council, the NSW Film & Television Office, Film Victoria, the Australian Film Commission, ABC television, Screenwest, the Victorian Ministry for the Arts and the Australian Research Council. He has been awarded international fellowships and bursaries to conduct scholarly and archival research at the US Library of Congress, the US National Archives, the University of Surrey-Roehampton, Hiroshima City University, UCLA Special Collections, the University of the Arts London and University of California Santa Barbara. He is co-founding editor of the praxis-led e-journal IM: Interactive Media, an editorial board member of ScreenWorks (UK) and was a West Australia commissioning editor for Realtime. In 2008 he co-convened the international conference and curated art exhibition and film program for ‘Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering’. Broderick holds a research consultancy with the Australian National Museum to audit the nation’s cold war artifacts, infrastructure and atomic heritage and his 2005 curated exhibition of cold war material culture, Half Lives, will be installed at museums in Tokyo and Hiroshima throughout 2009. Broderick's scholarly writing has been translated into French, Italian and Japanese, and his major publications include editions of the reference work Nuclear Movies (1988, 1991) and, as editor, Hibakusha Cinema (1996, 1999). Entertaining Armageddon: On Representing the Unthinkable is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press.

Select Publications:

Books

Broderick, Mick. (under review). Entertaining Armageddon: On Representing the Unthinkable. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Broderick, Mick. Ed. 1996. Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. London: Keagan Paul International; (Japanese language edition: Gendai Shokan, Tokyo, 1999).

Broderick, Mick. 1991. Nuclear Movies: a Critical Analysis and Filmography of International Feature Length Films Dealing With Experimentation, Aliens, Terrorism, Holocaust. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co.; (revised expanded edition of Nuclear Movies: A Filmography. Northcote, Vic.: Post•Modem Publishing, 1988).

Edited Special Issue Peer-reviewed Journals

Broderick, Mick and Antonio Traverso. Eds. (issue 3, 2009). Intersections. Selected papers on gender and the Asia-Pacific from the 2008 Interrogating Trauma conference.

Broderick, Mick and Antonio Traverso. Eds. (issue 1, 2010). Continuum. Selected papers on media and culture from the 2008 Interrogating Trauma conference.

Recent Book Chapters

Broderick, Mick. (in press). Mediating Genocide: Producing Digital Survivor Testimony in Rwanda. In Janet Walker & Bhaskar Sarkar (Eds). Moving Testimonies:  New Documentary Assemblages. Routledge: New York.

Broderick, Mick. (in press). Atomicalia: Material Culture, its Collection and Exchange in the Nuclear Era. In Robert Jacobs (Ed.). Filling the Hole in the Future: Art and Popular Culture in Response to the Atom Bomb. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.

Broderick, Mick. (in press). Better the Devil You Know: The Antichrist at the Millennium. In Ian Conrich (Ed.). HorrorZone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema, Verso, London.

Broderick, Mick. (in press). Animating Apocalypse: Millennial Expression in Japanese Film. In John Walliss & Kenneth Newport (Eds), Apocalyptic texts in Popular Culture. London: Equinox Publishing.

Recent Journal Articles (refereed)

Broderick, Mick (forthcoming). In from the Cold: Hunter and the Construction of Australian Espionage Drama. Continuum. Special Issue edited by Susan Bye, Felicity Collins and Sue Turnball from the Television and the National Conference.

Broderick, Mick, Mark Cypher & Jim Macbeth (forthcoming). Critical Masses: Augmented Virtual Experiences and the Xenoplastic at Australia’s Cold War and Nuclear Heritage Sites. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. Special Issue edited by John Schofield from the New Ground Conference 

Broderick, Mick. (in press). Making Things New: Regeneration and Transcendence in Animé. Animation Studies.

Broderick, Mick. (2008). Waiting to Exhale: Somatic Responses to Place and the Genocidal Sublime. IM: Interactive Media, 4, (Summer 2008), at wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/nass/issue4/pdf/IM4_broderick.pdf.

Recent Production/Creative Work

Broderick, Mick. (2008-09). Fugue.  Executive producer, script editor, actor. 32 minute drama. Jamie Helmer: writer-director. Murdoch Screen Academy honours production.

Broderick, Mick. (2007). Hypocenter2: at Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s Ground Zero. Writer-director-producer. 15 minute documentary (in post-production).

Broderick, Mick. (2007). Exhale. New media installation. 30 minute digital diptych. New Revelations. Spectrum Project Space, Perth. 14-28 July.

Broderick, Mick. (2004-05). Where the World Changed: Trinity, New Mexico. Writer-director-producer. 10 minute micro-documentary.

Recent Curated Works

Broderick, Mick. (2009). Atomicalia: Material Culture of the Nuclear Era. Cold war artefactual installation/exhibition. Hiroshima City University Museum. 24 July-7 August. Lucky Dragon Museum, Tokyo, 10 August – 9 September.

Broderick, Mick and Alexandra Chapman. (2005). Hiroshima 60+ film program. Bath International Film Festival. October.

Broderick, Mick and Anna Edmundson. (2004-05). Half Lives: Experiencing the Nuclear Age. Material culture installation/exhibition for the Western Australia Museum running 15 December 2004 to 10 February 2005.

Recent Conference Papers

Broderick, Mick (2008). In from the Cold: Hunter and the Construction of Australian Espionage Drama. Television and the National Conference. Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. 19-21 November.

Broderick, Mick (2008). Reconciling Trauma: Transnational Cultural Practices in Mediating Survivor Testimony. Panel convenor and presenter. Cultural Crossroads Conference, University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. 10-14 July.

Broderick, Mick (2007). Sustaining Nuclear Terra. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) annual conference. Flinders University, Adelaide. 6-8 December.

Broderick, Mick (2007). Critical Masses: Interpreting Australia’s Cold War Nuclear Sites. New Ground: Australasian Archaeology Conference. University of Sydney. 21-26 September.

Broderick, Mick (2007). Making Things New: Regeneration and Transcendence in Animé. Animated Dialogues. Monash University, Berwick. 17-19 June

Broderick, Mick, Mark Cypher & Jim Macbeth (2007). Critical Masses: Augmented Virtual Experiences and the Xenoplastic at Australia’s Cold War and Nuclear Heritage Sites. 2nd International Conference on Digital and Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA). Ambassador Hotel, Perth. 19-21 September.

Broderick, Mick, Rachel Wilson & Greg Ferris. (2007). Digital Content Archiving and Repositories. 4th annual ASPERA Conference. Griffith University, Brisbane. 27-29 June.

Recent Media Interviews

(2006). ABC Television. The Collectors. Studio interview by Collectors panel on the ‘atomicalia’ collection. 8 April. <http://www.abc.net.au/tv/collectors/txt/s1643115.htm>
 
(2006). ABC Television. The Collectors. Interviewed at home by David Devoss on the material culture of the atomic age. 13 March. <http://www.abc.net.au/collectors>
 
(2005) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Lights, Camera, Armageddon. Interviewed by deputy editor Josh Schollmeyer on the representation of nuclear weapons and terrorsim in Hollywood film. May June (Vol. 61, No. 3). <http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj05schollmeyer>

(2005). Cosmos Magazine. Science Fiction Cinema Poster Art. Interviewed by Ray Edgar on the iconography of cold war science fiction exploitation art. August

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