culture and representation

Researchers working in this program examine the impact that globalisation is having on local cultures, the media, art and literature. Their work includes the investigation of international regulatory regimes, human rights discourses, media policy, and national ideologies. This program is divided into four theme areas:

• Film, Television and New Media - interlinked projects exploring media policy and regulatory regimes in several Asian countries.
• Representing the Other - examines representations of "otherness" through the analysis of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality in literature, and in mainstream and new media.
• Representing the Indonesian Nation - projects exploring the representation of the Indonesian nation in popular culture, news media and history texts.
• Exploring Languages in Asia - projects that examine language use and linguistics in a range of Asian languages.
• Asian Diasporic Literature

Film, Television and New Media

• The adaptation of globally circulated television programs supplied to third parties under license agreements (Philip Kitley)
• Internationalising Internet Studies: Beyond anglophone Paradigms (Mark McLelland)
• Internet Histories (Mark McLelland)
• Film Policies in Korea During Japanese Colonial Rule, 1910-1945 (Brian Yecies)
• The Coming of Sound to the Korean Cinema, 1929-1939 (Brian Yecies)
• The Origin and Development of the Korean Screen Quota System: Hollywood's Action and Reaction (Brian Yecies)
• Hip-Hop Outside the USA: Cultural Hybridity & Performing Identity (Annalise Friend)

Representing the Other

• Bangladeshi Muslim Women and the Islamic Revival (Santi Rozario)
• Subtle Bodies in Indic Religions and Related Traditions (Geoffrey Samuel)
• Longevity Practices and Concepts in Tibet: A Study of Long-Life Practices in the Dudjom Tradition (Geoffrey Samuel)
• Musical Form and Ritual Meaning in the Phur-pa Ritual Cycle of the Tibetan Bon-Po Religion (Geoffrey Samuel and Ricardo Canzio)
• Consuming Exotica: The Marketing of Asian Artisanal Crafts in Australia (Tim Scrase)
• Sex and the City: Kissing is a Symbol of Democracy: Reconstructing Sex and Gender in Japan 1945-55 (Mark McLelland)
• Japanese Transnational Fandoms (Mark McLelland)
• Discovering Negotiated Spaces of Cultural Expression: Examining Japanese Empire Archives (Brian Yecies)
• Miyazawa Kenji's Buddhist Nature: the pictorialised Kenji (Helen Kilpatrick)
• ANZAC Nationalism and secular pilgrimages (Barry Morris)

Representing the Indonesian Nation

• From Mass to Public: Discourses and Representations of Popular Sovereignty in Indonesia (Philip Kitley)
• Civil Society, Public Spheres and the Media in Indonesia (Philip Kitley)
• East Timor Crisis (1999) reports in Australian and Indonesian Newspapers (Ari Santoso Widodo Poespodihardjo)
• Young people, popular culture, identity and social change in Indonesia (Pam Nilan)
• From the Margins of History – A Long Babad of Jembrana, Bali (Mary Ida Bagus and Linda Connor)

Exploring Languages in Asia

• Mapping the Genres of Japanese Project (Elizabeth Thomson)
• The News Project (Elizabeth Thomson)
• A Study of Written Administrative Directires in the Japanese and Australian Workplaces (Yumiko Mizusawa)
• Exploring the Features of Japanese persuasive writing in the NSW HSC exam (Yuki Oe)
• Linguistic exploration of "persuasion" in Japanese (Motoki Sano)