Dr Anne Rutherford
- Biography
- Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
- Grants / Current Projects
- Publications
- Service to the Profession
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Biography
Anne Rutherford is a Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies in the School of Humanities and Languages. Her recent research explores how film produces sensory-affective experience for the spectator, arguing that we must explore this affective dimension if we want to understand how cinema takes up cultural or thematic issues. Her book, What Makes a Film Tick, examines cinematic affect through close readings of how affective immersion in cinema works to engage viewers with history, memory and cultural specificity, in both both fiction film and documentary. The book takes an international perspective, including case studies of Korean detective film, classical Japanese cinema, modern Greek cinema, independent American cinema, Indian documentary, Australian television documentary, Indonesian political docudrama, avant-garde French documentary and Australian Indigenous film. Her recent research projects have explored affective dimensions of film sound in the collaborative work of Japanese director, Kobayashi Masaki and composer, Takemitsu Toru, and the concept of ‘animate thought’ in the ethnographic photographs of Donald Thomson and their heritage in the film, Ten Canoes. She has also made several short films and has an ongoing interest in film production and screenwriting.
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
Theories of cinematic affect and embodiment; Asian cinemas; Indigenous cinema; theoretical work of Eisenstein; theoretical work of Miriam Hansen; film sound; documentary film.
Grants / Current Projects
2009: Book manuscript in preparation Cinematic Affect, Materiality and Mimetic Innervation.
2008: Research grant: ‘Ten Canoes: cinema as “intercultural membrane”’. UWS Pilot grant.
2008-9: The film scores of Takemitsu Toru
Ongoing research projects: Theories of cinematic affect, experience and embodiment
Publications
Books
‘What Makes a Film Tick?’: Cinematic Affect, Materiality and Mimetic Innervation. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.
Selected Refereed Journal Articles
2012 ‘Ten Canoes and the Ethnographic Photographs of Donald Thomson: “Animate Thought” and “the Light of the World”.’ Cultural Studies Review. (Forthcoming)
2010 ‘Volatile Space, Takemitsu and the Material Contagions of Harakiri’. Screening the Past 27. ISSN 1328-9756.
2006 ‘Garin Nugroho: didong, cinema and the embodiment of politics in cultural form’, Screening the Past 20.
2006 ‘ “Buddhas Made of Ice and Butter”: Mimetic Visuality, Transience and the Documentary Image’, Third Text 20: 1, 27-40.
2003 ‘The Poetics of a Potato: Documentary that Gets Under the Skin’, Metro 137, 126-131.
2003 ‘Cinema and Embodied Affect’, in Senses of Cinema, no. 25.
2000 ‘But What Does the Man in the Cowboy Hat Think? Intercultural Dialogue: Silence, Taboo and Masquerade’, UTS Review 6:1, 80–103.
2000 ‘Arrested Motion: Leaps and Bounds in the Korean Detective Film’, in Senses Of Cinema, no. 7.
1999 ‘“The Future of Cinema Studies in the Age of Global Media”: Aesthetics, Spectatorship and Public Spheres’, interview with Professor Miriam Hansen, Ferdinand Shevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at University of Chicago (with Laleen Jayamanne) UTS Review 5:1, 94 –110.
Selected Book Chapters
‘Teaching Mise en Scène.’ Teaching Film. Eds. Lucy Fischer and Patrice Petro. MLA Teaching options series.(Forthcoming)
2007 ‘Nowhere To Hide: The Tumultuous Materialism of Lee Myung-Se’, in Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema, edited by Frances Gateward (Albany: SUNY Press), 157-174.
2002 ‘Precarious Boundaries: Affect, Mise en Scene and the Senses’, in Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection, edited by Richard Candida Smith (New York & London: Routledge, ‘Memory and Narrative’ series), 63-84.
Also <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/04/31/angelopoulos_balkan_epic.html>
1992 ‘ “Why a Fish Pond?”: Fiction at the Heart of Documentation. Interview with Trinh Minh-ha’, in Framer Framed: Film Scripts and Interviews, edited by Trinh T. Minh-ha (New York & London: Routledge) (with Laleen Jayamanne), 161-178.
Catalogue Essays
2006 ‘The Quiet Scrape of the Blade: Amar Kanwar’. Charles Merewether (ed.), Zones of Contact: 2006 Biennale of Sydney, exhibition catalogue, Biennale of Sydney Ltd, 2006.
1990 ‘Night Cries’, a catalogue essay commissioned by Tracey Moffatt for the premiere of her film, Night Cries, at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Artlink 10:1&2, Autumn/Winter, 1990.
Selected Non-Refereed Journal Articles
2011 ‘Double Suicide and the Fetishism of Space’. CTEQ Annotations on Film. Senses of Cinema.
2005 ‘ “Not firing arrows”: multiplicity, heterogeneity and the future of documentary’ Asian Cinema 16:1, Spring, 117-124.
2003 ‘Negotiating Indigenous documentary: storytelling, audience and cultural sensibility’, Metro 139, 56-61.
1996 ‘Not a Sweet Little Film About Assimilation’, Real Time #16.
Service to the profession
Journal referee
2007 Cultural Studies Review.
2006 Feminist Media Studies.
2004 Senses of Cinema.
2001 Feminist Media Studies.
Film festival judging
2009 Jury member, AFI Awards, Feature film category.
2007 Judge, Hawkesbury Film Festival.
2004 Jury member, AFI Awards, Short film/short animation category.
2001 Judge, Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, 48th Sydney Film Festival.
Film Industry service
2002 English copy editor, catalogue, 7th Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea.
2002 Catalogue editor and contribution to program notes, 3rd Sydney Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
2002 English copy editor, catalogue, 4th Women's Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea.
2001 English copy editor, catalogue, 6th Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea.
Professional memberships
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Australian Film Institute (accredited film critic/writer)
