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School of Media Communication & Culture

Mick Broderick

Mick Broderick

Mick Broderick is a lecturer in Media Analysis.

Qualifications & memberships:
BA (RMIT) MA prelim (La Trobe) PhD (UTS).
Associate Director, Centre for Millennial Studies, Sydney branch.
Teaching areas:
Screen texts; Media; cultural policy.
Research areas:
National cinemas (Australian, Japanese, American); film history; genre; popular culture; cultural policy; critical theory (post-structuralism and postmodernity); nuclearism and the apocalyptic; cold war; television.
Areas of Expertise:
Internationally acknowledged expert in the cultural manifestations of nuclearism and the apocalyptic
Some recent publications:

* "Anime's Apocalypse: Neon Genesis Evangelion as Millennarian Mecha", Intersections, Issue 7, March 2002
website: http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue7/broderick_review.html

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

* Nuclear Movies (McFarland & Co., Jefferson NC, 1991);

Web Site:
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/~mickbrod/postmodm/

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