Associate Professor Hart Cohen

Hart Cohen researches in the areas of cultural diversity, heritage and media. He is currently the Chief Investigator of the ARC Linkage project, 'The Visual Meditation of a Complex Narrative: TGH Strehlow's 'Journey to Horseshoe Bend'' in partnership with the Strehlow Research Centre.  As part of this Linkage project, he wrote and directed 'Cantata Journey', a documentary which was commissioned by ABC TV and which screened on the ABC in 2006.

Selected Publications

Books

Cohen, H., Salazar, J. & Barkat, I. 2008, Screen Media Arts: An Introduction to Concepts and Practices, South Melbourne, Vic: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Cohen, H. 2007, ‘Early Ethnogaphic Film and Documentary: Points of Contact’, in, Englebrecht, B. (ed.), Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film, Frankfurt Am Main: Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe, pp 307-319. 

Cohen, H. 2006, ‘Repertoire, Landscape and Memory: Schultz's and Williams’s “Journey to Horsehsoe Bend” Cantata’, in Macarthur, S., Crossman, B. & Morelos, R. (eds), Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation, AMC: Sydney, pp 116-123.

Cohen, H. 2003, 'From Moral Pause to Moral Copyright: The Case of "Mr Strehlow's Films"', in Gross, L., Katz, J. & Ruby, J. (eds), Image Ethics in the Digital Age, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.  

Cohen, H. 2001, 'Subjectivities: Media Consumption and the Dynamics of Cultural/Political Change', in Chitty, N. (ed.), Mapping Globalisation: International Media and a Crisis of Identity, Kuala Lumpur: South Bound Press, pp 140-150. 

Cohen, H. 2001, ‘The Filmworks of TGh Strehlow: Commodities of the Sacred’, in, Turcotte, G., Ratcliffe, G. & Rutherford, A. (eds), Compr(om)ising Post/colonialism(s): Challenging Narratives and Practices, Sydney: Dangaroo Press, pp 129-138.

Journal Articles

Cohen, H. 2005, 'The Visual Mediation of a Complex Narrative: TGH Strehlow's Journey to Horseshoe Bend', Media International Australia, 116(August): 36-51.

Cohen, H. 2004, 'Trust me, I'm an Editor', Metro, 141: 106-112.

Cohen, H. 2000, 'McLuhan Re-visited: The Legacy of Marshall McLuhan', Media International Australia, (Special McLuhan Supplement), 94(February).

Productions

Cohen, H. 2006, Cantata Journey, ABC TV, Writer/Producer.

Cohen, H. 2004, Breath, Tess De Quincey Dance Company, Director/Producer.

Cohen, H. 2003, No Cold Feet, Tess De Quincey Dance Company, Director/Producer.

Cohen, H. 2002, Shiver, Tess De Quincey Dance Company, Director/Producer.

Cohen, H. 2001, Mr Strehlow's Films, SBS/FFC, Writer/Director.

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