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Biography
Dr Mick Broderick is Associate Professor in Media Analysis.
Deputy Director, National Academy of Screen & Sound (NASS) http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/index.htm
Co-founding Editor: IM Interactive Media, (ISSN 1833-0533) http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/nass/nass_im_ejournal.htm
Co-Convenor: Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering, International Conference (Perth, Western Australia, 2-4 December 2008) http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/trauma
Qualifications & memberships:
PhD (UTS)
MA prelim (La Trobe)
BA (RMIT)
Teaching areas:
Screen Media
Cultural Policy
Research areas:
National cinemas/media industries (Australian, US, Japanese); government and institutional global media policy; nuclearism and apocalypse as a cultural phenomenon; trauma and representation; film history; non-fiction and documentary forms; film genre; critical theory; narrative; cold war television and film history; gender and masculinity; interactive media technologies.
Biography:
Mick Broderick is Associate Professor and Research Coordinator in the School of Media, Communication & Culture at Murdoch University, where he is Deputy Director of the National Academy of Screen & Sound (NASS). He has held elected positions on the national management committees of the ARC's Cultural Research Network (CRN) in 2004-06 and the Australian Screen Production Educators Research Association (ASPERA) in 2006-07 and 2009-11. Broderick's scholarly writing has been translated into French, Italian and Japanese, and his major publications include editions of the reference work Nuclear Movies (1988, 1991) and, as editor, Hibakusha Cinema (1996, 1999). Recent co-edited collections include Interrogating Trauma (2010) and Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (2010). In 2008 he co-convened the international conference, art exhibition and film program 'Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering'. Broderick has held research consultancies with the Australian National Museum to audit the nation's cold war artefacts, infrastructure and atomic heritage and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency. His 2005 curated exhibition of cold war material culture, Half Lives, was been installed at museums in Japan throughout 2009-10. He has been a screen culture assessor for ScreenWest and was invited in 2007 to the inaugural board of Revelation, Perth's International Film Festival. Broderick has twice been a peer judge for the West Australian Screen Awards (WASAs) and was invited as the sole academic representative for the 2004 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC). From 1991-2000 he worked within the Cultural & Industry Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission. His media research, scriptwriting and production work has won competitive grants from the Australia Council, the NSW Film & Television Office, Film Victoria, the Australian Film Commission, ABC television, Screenwest, the Victorian Ministry for the Arts and the Australian Research Council. He has been awarded international fellowships and bursaries to conduct scholarly and archival research at the US Library of Congress, the US National Archives, the University of Surrey-Roehampton, Hiroshima City University, UCLA Special Collections, the University of the Arts London and University of California Santa Barbara. He is co-founding editor of the praxis-led e-journal IM: Interactive Media, an editorial board member of ScreenWorks (UK) and was a West Australia commissioning editor for Realtime. In 2010 Broderick was a visiting Researcher in Residence at the United States Studies Centre (University or Sydney) and visiting Research Fellow at the National Film & Sound Archive (Canberra).
Select Publications:
Books
Broderick, Mick and Antonio Traverso (Eds). (2011). Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering. London: Routledge.
Broderick, Mick and Antonio Traverso (Eds). (2010). Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives. Newcastle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Broderick, Mick. Ed. 1996. Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. London: Keagan Paul International; (Japanese language edition: Gendai Shokan, Tokyo, 1999).
Broderick, Mick. 1991. Nuclear Movies: a Critical Analysis and Filmography of International Feature Length Films Dealing With Experimentation, Aliens, Terrorism, Holocaust . Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co.; (revised expanded edition of Nuclear Movies: A Filmography. Northcote, Vic.: Post•Modem Publishing, 1988).
Edited Special Issue Peer-reviewed Journals
Broderick, Mick and Gill Leahy. (Forthcoming, April 2011). Special issue on Screen Media Production/Creative Arts. Selected papers from the 2010 ASPERA conference. Text: Journal of Writers and Writing Courses, at http://www.textjournal.com.au
Broderick, Mick and Antonio Traverso (Eds). (2010). Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering. Special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 24: 1, February.
Broderick, Mick and Antonio Traverso (Eds). (2010). Arts and Media Responses to The Traumatic Effects of War on Japan. Special issue ofIntersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. No. 24, April, at http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue24_contents.htm
Broderick, Mick, Jennifer De Rueck, and Josko Petkovic (Eds). (2008). Trauma. Special issue. IM: Interactive Media. 4. (Summer 2008), at http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/nass/nass_previous_issue_no4.htm
Recent Book Chapters
Broderick, Mick and Antonio Traverso. (2010). New Perspectives in International Trauma Culture: An Introduction. In Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso (Eds). Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives. Newcastle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Broderick, Mick. (2010). 'The Buck Stops Here': Hiroshima Revisionism in the Truman Years. In Robert Jacobs (Ed.). Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture in Response to the Atom Bomb. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield. 135-158
Broderick, Mick. (2009). Mediating Genocide: Producing Digital Survivor Testimony in Rwanda. In Janet Walker & Bhaskar Sarkar (Eds). Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering (AFI Film Reader). Routledge: New York. 215-44
Broderick, Mick. (2009). Better the Devil You Know: The Antichrist at the Millennium. In Ian Conrich (Ed.). Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema. London: I.B. Taurus. 227-244.
Broderick, Mick. (2009). Making Things New: Regeneration and Transcendence in Anime. In John Walliss & Kenneth Newport (Eds). The End All Around Us: Apocalyptic texts and Popular Culture. London: Equinox Publishing. 120-147.
Broderick, Mick. (2007). Rebels With a Cause: Children Subverting the Military-Industrial Complex in Film. In Tim Shary and Alexandra Seibel (Eds). Youth Culture in Global Cinema. Austin: University of Texas Press. 37-56.
Broderick, Mick and Mark Gibson. (2005). Mourning, Monomyth and Memorabilia: the Consumer Logics of Collecting 9/11. In Dana Heller (Ed.). Selling 9/11: How a National Tragedy Became a Commodity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 200-220.
Broderick, Mick. (2005). Armageddon Without A Cause: Playing 'Chicken' in the Atomic Age. In David Slocum (Ed.). Rebel Without A Cause: An Anniversary Reader. Syracuse: State University of New York Press. 149-170.
Recent Journal Articles (refereed)
Broderick, Mick and Gill Leahy. (Forthcoming, April 2011). Ranking Screen Production Outlets. Text: Journal of Writers and Writing Courses.
Broderick, Mick and Antonio Traverso. (2010). Post-war Trauma in Japan: Media, Arts and Gender. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. No. 24, April, at http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue24/intro.htm
Traverso, Antonio and Mick Broderick. (2010). Interrogating Trauma: Towards a Critical Trauma Studies. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Vol. 24, No. 1, February 2010, 1-13.
Broderick, Mick (2010). Topographies of Trauma, Dark Tourism and World Heritage: Hiroshima's Genbaku Dome. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. 24. April, at http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue24/intro.htm
Broderick, Mick. (forthcoming). In from the Cold: Hunter and the Construction of Australian Espionage Drama. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.
Broderick, Mick, Mark Cypher & Jim Macbeth (2009). Critical Masses: Augmented Virtual Experiences and the Xenoplastic at Australia's Cold War and Nuclear Heritage Sites. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. 323-343.
Broderick, Mick. (2009). Superflat Eschatology: Renewal and Religion in Anime. Animation Studies. 4. 29-45, also at http://journal.animationstudies.org/2009/07/12/michael-broderick-superflat-eschatology/#more-68.
Broderick, Mick. (2008). Waiting to Exhale: Somatic Responses to Place and the Genocidal Sublime. IM: Interactive Media. 4. (Summer 2008), at wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/nass/issue4/pdf/IM4_broderick.pdf
De Rueck, Jennifer, Mick Broderick and Josko Petkovic. (2008). Scoping Trauma. IM: Interactive Media. 4. (Summer 2008), at http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/nass_im_from_the_editors_4.htm.
Broderick, Mick. (2005). Uneasy Allies: the Shifting Representation of Americans in Post-WWII Australian Cinema. PostScript, (15, 3): 96-111.
Recent Production/Creative Work
Broderick, Mick. (2010). Messages of Hope. Writer, co-editor, co-producer. 10 minute documentary. Yves Kamuronsi: director, editor, co-producer. Screened on Rwanda National Television, 7 April. Screened 20,000+ audience, Rwanda National Stadium during 16th anniversary ceremony.
Broderick, Mick. (2009-10). Here Lies Augustine Morelli. Co-Executive Producer (with John McMullan). 19 minute drama. Peter Clark: writer-director. Murdoch Screen Academy honours production.
Broderick, Mick. (2008-09). Fugue. Executive producer, script editor, actor. 50 minute drama. Jamie Helmer: writer-director. Murdoch Screen Academy honours production.
Broderick, Mick. (2007). Exhale. New media installation. 30 minute digital diptych. New Revelations. Spectrum Project Space, Perth. 14-28 July.
Broderick, Mick. (2004-05). Where the World Changed: Trinity, New Mexico. Writer-director-producer. 10 minute micro-documentary.
Broderick, Mick. (forthcoming). Hypocenter2: at Hiroshima and Nagasaki's Ground Zero. Writer-director-producer. 15 minute documentary (in post-production).
Recent Curated Works
Broderick, Mick. (2009). Atomicalia: Material Culture of the Nuclear Era. Cold war artefactual installation/exhibition. Hiroshima Peace Film Festival. October-November. Space Pica.
Broderick, Mick. (2009). Atomicalia: Material Culture of the Nuclear Era. Cold war artefactual installation/exhibition. Hiroshima City University Museum. 24 July-7 August.
Broderick, Mick and Alexandra Chapman. (2005). Hiroshima 60+ film program. Bath International Film Festival. October.
Broderick, Mick and Anna Edmundson. (2004-05). Half Lives: Experiencing the Nuclear Age. Material culture installation/exhibition for the Western Australia Museum running 15 December 2004 to 10 February 2005.
Recent Conference Papers / Seminar Presentations
Broderick, Mick. (2010). On the Beach. Introduction to special screening and in-conversation with Vincent Plush. National Film & Sound Archive
Broderick, Mick. (2010). Getting Our "Hair Mussed": Cold War Logics of Armageddon Informing On the Beach and Dr Strangelove. Panel convenor. Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. University of Texas, Austin USA. 1 October.
Broderick, Mick and Gill Leahy. (2010). Ranking outlets for Screen Production Research. ASPERA Conference. UTS, Sydney. 7 July.
Broderick, Mick. (2010). Uneasy Allies - Representing Americans as other in Australian national Cinema. United States Study Centre, University of Sydney. 12 May.
Broderick, Mick. (2010). Mediating Trauma: strategies in representing human suffering and communicating its effects to an international audience. Opening Plenary speaker. National Commission for the Fight against Genocide conference: '16 ans après le Génocide perpétré contre les Tutsi Rwanda. Gestion de ses conséquences.' Kigali, Serena Hotel, 4-6 April.
Broderick, Mick. (2009). Augmenting the Archive: extending Australia's audio-visual heritage at cold war sites. Panel convenor: Applying digital and mobile technologies for in-situ heritage and tourism management. With Shri Rai, Alice Gorman & Josh Whitkin. Australian Archaeology Association conference. Adelaide. 13 November.
Broderick, Mick. (2009). Topographies of Trauma, Dark Tourism and World Heritage: Interpreting 20th Century Catastrophe. Krishner-Somers seminar, Murdoch University, 29 April.
Broderick, Mick. (2008). Trauma Cinema: Active Witnessing of Catastrophic Historical Events in Japanese and Chilean cinemas. Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific (CASAAP) Seminar series, Curtin University. 29 May.
Broderick, Mick. (2008). Approaching Genocide: Representing and Negotiating Mass Trauma in Rwanda and Japan. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara. 23 April.
Broderick, Mick (2008). In from the Cold: Hunter and the Construction of Australian Espionage Drama. Television and the National Conference. Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. 19-21 November.
Broderick, Mick (2008). Reconciling Trauma: Transnational Cultural Practices in Mediating Survivor Testimony. Panel convenor and presenter. Cultural Crossroads Conference, University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. 10-14 July.
Broderick, Mick (2007). Sustaining Nuclear Terra. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) annual conference. Flinders University, Adelaide. 6-8 December.
Broderick, Mick (2007). Critical Masses: Interpreting Australia's Cold War Nuclear Sites. New Ground: Australasian Archaeology Conference. University of Sydney. 21-26 September.
Broderick, Mick (2007). Making Things New: Regeneration and Transcendence in Animé. Animated Dialogues. Monash University, Berwick. 17-19 June
Broderick, Mick, Mark Cypher & Jim Macbeth (2007). Critical Masses: Augmented Virtual Experiences and the Xenoplastic at Australia's Cold War and Nuclear Heritage Sites. 2nd International Conference on Digital and Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA). Ambassador Hotel, Perth. 19-21 September.
Broderick, Mick, Rachel Wilson & Greg Ferris. (2007). Digital Content Archiving and Repositories. 4th annual ASPERA Conference. Griffith University, Brisbane. 27-29 June.
Broderick, Mick (2007). 2nd life & Beyond: Virtual Communities and Making Media in a Digital World. Revelation Screen Industry Conference. Panel Chair. Art Gallery of WA. 22 July.
Broderick, Mick (2006). 2 or 3 Things I Know About Stanley: Inside the Kubrick Archive. VIIIth International Film & History Conference. State Library of Victoria. 16-19 November.
Broderick, Mick (2006). Global Youth Culture. SCMS workshop, convened by Tim Shary. Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver. 1-5 April.
Broderick, Mick (2006). Digital Futures. Imagining Tomorrow. NASS/ 3rd ASPERA National Conference. Perth: Murdoch University. 27-28 June.
Broderick, Mick (2006). Filling the Hole in the Future: Art and Popular Culture in Response to the Atom Bomb. Hiroshima Peace Institute. Orrington Hotel Evanston/Northwestern University. 15-16 February.
Broderick, Mick (2005). Septic Tanks Downunder: Americans as 'other' in Australian Cinema. American Association of Australian Literary Studies. Harvard University, Boston, 28-30 April.
Broderick, Mick (2005). Ambiguous Allies: Australian National Cinema's representation of Americans in the Second World War. The Digger and the Larrikin Live On: ANZAC Conference. Imperial War Museum, London, 23-24 April.
Broderick, Mick. (2005). The Buck Stops Here: Harry S. Truman's Hiroshima Revisionism in The Beginning or the End. The Atomic Bomb and American Society. University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge, 15-17 July.
Broderick, Mick (2005). State of the Industry. Revelation Film Festival. Screen Industry Conference. Panel Chair. July.
Broderick, Mick (2005). James Dean: Rebel 50 years on. SCMS workshop with Murray Pomerance, Tim Shary, David Slocum, Susan White, Jon Lewis & Daniel Biltereyst. Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. University of London, 31 March - 3 April.
Recent Media Interviews
(2010). Canberra Times. The Nuclear War film that had US in a Tizz. Interviewed by Sally Prior about the special screening of 'On the Beach'. 25 November.
(2010). New Times, Rwanda. Australian expert calls for community consultation on graphic Genocide images. Interviewed by Charles Kwizera. 12 April.
(2009). ABC International Television. News Hour with Jim Middleton. Interviewed about Rwandan genocide, included video shot from field trips in 2007 and 2009.
(2009). Doctor's Orders: How a dead serious novel became the nightmare satire of Strangelove. Interviewed by Bilge Bbri for the Museum of the Moving Image. 26 May. http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/doctors-orders-20090526
(2009). Act Now. The Rwanda Project. 1 May. http://www.actnow.com.au/Interviews/The_Rwanda_project.aspx
(2006). ABC Television. The Collectors. Studio interview by Collectors panel on the 'atomicalia' collection. 8 April. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/collectors/txt/s1643115.htm
(2006). ABC Television. The Collectors. Interviewed at home by David Devoss on the material culture of the atomic age. 13 March. http://www.abc.net.au/collectors
(2005). Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Lights, Camera, Armageddon. Interviewed by deputy editor Josh Schollmeyer on the representation of nuclear weapons and terrorism in Hollywood film. May June (Vol. 61, No. 3). http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj05schollmeyer
(2005). Cosmos Magazine. Science Fiction Cinema Poster Art. Interviewed by Ray Edgar on the iconography of cold war science fiction exploitation art. August
