Associate Professor Hart Cohen

Hart Cohen


Biography

Dr Hart Cohen is Associate Professor in Media Arts in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is Associate Head of School responsible for Research and Postgraduate Studies. Dr Cohen is a member of the Centre for Cultural Research and supervises a number of MA (research), DCA and PhD students. He has published widely in the field of visual anthropology, communications and film studies. 

Dr Cohen directed two Australian Research Council Projects related to the Strehlow Collection held at the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice Springs. The current project is an online database documentary related to TGH Strehlow’s memoir, Journey to Horseshoe Bend. Two films have been made in relation to these projects: Mr. Strehlow’s Films (SBSi 2001) and Cantata Journey (ABC TV 2006). He co-edited a special issue of Media International Australia on the theme of Digital Anthropology (MIA 116 August 2005).

Dr Cohen is co-author of Screen Media Arts: An Introduction to Concepts and Practices for Oxford University Press (2009) and founding editor of the Global Media Journal (Australian Edition).

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Visual anthropology
History and theory of communication
Screen media arts

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Grants / Current Projects

ARC 2004-07 The Visual Mediation of A Complex Narrative: TGH Strehlow's Journey to Horseshoe Bend.

2008 Cultural sustainability and digital storytelling (UWS Internal) w/ Juan Francisco Salazar.

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Awards and Recognition

2009 20 year service award, University of Western Sydney.

2004 Royal Anthropological Institute Ethnographic Film Festival (Film Screened in Competition).

2005 VC Community Partnership Award For work executed with the Strehlow Research Centre and the Arrernte community at Ntaria/Hermannsburg.

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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, Hart, 2001 The Film works of TGH Strehlow: Commodities of the Sacred, in Compromising Postcolonialisms, ed. Greg Ratcliffe and Gerry Turcotte. Sydney: Dangaroo. PP. 129-139.

Cohen, Hart, 1997 ‘Brecht in Bangkok: An account of Dennis O’Rourke’s The Good Woman of Bangkok’ in The Filmmaker and the Prostitute, Berry, Hamilton, Jayamanne (eds), Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney, pp. 67-79.

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., & Salazar, J., eds., Introduction: Prospects for a Digital Anthropology, in Media International Australia, #116, August 2005, pp. 5-9.

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

Film works pertaining to the research proposal

2006 “Cantata Journey”, ABC TV, Director/Producer.

2001 “Mr.Strehlow’s Films”, 52 Minutes, SBSi.
Awarded at the RAI Ethnographic Film Festival.

Editor: Australian-Canadian Studies 1996-2002.

Music, Media Text: Indigenous Media in Canada and Australia, Australian-Canadian Studies, (Editor and Introductory Essay), Volume 14, 1&2.

Editor: Global Media Journal/Australian Edition 2007-present.

Online Publications

Journey to Horseshoe Bend online database (opens in a new window).

Journey to Horseshoe Bend website (opens in a new window).

Radio Broadcast

Cohen, H., A Journey of Healing Toward Reconciliation, ABC Radio National.

Refereed Conference Papers

Cohen, Hart, Morley, Rachel & Hayes, Steven ‘Database biographies in TGH Strehlow's memoir Journey to Horseshoe Bend’, National Library, Canberra, October 2008.

Cohen, Hart, (2008) Datadiversity and Visual Knowledge: Exploring the Emergent Models for Indigenous Databases in Australia, University of Montreal.

Cohen, Hart, Visualising Anthropology: Ethnography, Documentary and the Films of TGH Strehlow, Conference Proceedings, Strehlow Conference, pp. 177 – 183. 2004.

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Film Projects

Broadcast

2006 “Cantata Journey”, ABC TV, Director/Producer.

2001 “Mr Strehlow’s Films” Role: Writer/Director, SBS/FFC.

Collaborations

2004 “Breath”, Tess De Quincey Dance Company, Director/Producer.

2003 “No Cold Feet”, Tess De Quincey Dance Company, Director/Producer.

2002 “Shiver”, Tess De Quincey Dance Company, Director/Producer.

Community Video

2001 Youth Suicide Prevention, Blacktown, Producer.

1999 International Student Recruitment Video, Producer.

1998 Disabilities Employment Services, Producer.

Careers Market, Producer.

1996 “Math Education” Producer.

Auburn High School orientation Video. Producer.

Hospitality Excellence: Aboriginal Education. Producer.

1994 “Racism: Get Real!” Ethnic Affairs Commission Writer/Director.

"Best for our Babies" (Advocacy video on Breastfeeding in Cabramatta).

Editorial Boards & Editorships

Editor: Australian/Canadian Studies (1996 - 2003).

Co-editor Cinétracts 1977-82.

Founding Editor Global Media Journal/Australian Edition 2007-current.

Guest Editor: Media International Australia - 2000 Revisiting McLuhan, Media International Australia/Culture & Policy, Special McLuhan Supplement, No 94, February, pp.5-12

Cohen, H., & Salazar, J., eds., Introduction: Prospects for a Digital Anthropology, in Media International Australia, #116, August 2005, pp. 5-9

Board member: Continuum, Reviewer: Journal of International Communication, Cultural Studies Review.
Summer Institute in Film and Television, UWS 1990-1994.

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