Doctor Anne Rutherford

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 current research explores the reconfiguration of cinematic experience in the multimedia installations of William Kentridge. 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. 

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