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DR MARK NICHOLLS



Contact Details

Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN CINEMA STUDIES.
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Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/mark-nicholls.html
Work: 8344 5669
Fax: 8344 5563
Room: 111
Level: 01
Building: Elisabeth Murdoch
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Dr. MARK NICHOLLS is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia where he has taught since 1993. His areas of teaching include subject on melodrama, psychoanalysis, new Hollywood cinema and Italian Cinema. He is the author of Scorsese�s Men: Melancholia and the Mob, Pluto and Indiana University Press, and recently published chapters and articles on Martin Scorsese (Film Quarterly, Blackwell & Cambridge), Luchino Visconti (QRFV), Shakespeare in film (JFV) and film and the Cold War. He has recently completed a book length critical study on the films of Jeremy Irons and is currently engaged on a biography of Martin Scorsese. Mark is a film journalist and worked for many years on ABC Radio in Australia. He currently writes a weekly column on film in The Age newspaper in Melbourne. Mark has a long list of credits as a stage producer/director dating back to 1989.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Cinema Studies USA, Italy, Film History, Film Theory United States of America, Italy, United Kingdom, Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Visconti's Il gattopardo: melancholia and the radical sensibility
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 97-110
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Creative Works

  • Conversation piece (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno) DVD commentary
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Conversation piece (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno)
    Edition: 1
    Publisher: Madman Entertainment(Collingwood)
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  • Viridiana DVD commentary
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Viridiana
    Edition: 1
    Publisher: Madman Entertainment(Collingwood)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • My Victims, My Melancholia: Raging Bull and Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and The Beautiful
    Year: 2005
    Book: Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Freud and Gidget Go to Rome But Uncle Sam Doesn't: The Roman Fever Films 1953-1963
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Italian Studies in Southern Africa
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-33
    Publisher: Unisa Press
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Scorsese's men: melancholia and the mob
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Pluto Press(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Gen. Italia: Class, Sexuality and the Melodrama of Migration in Italian-Australian Cinema
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: SDA Bocconi Business School(Milan)
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  • Male Melancholia and Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Film Quarterly
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 25-35
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  • The Third Man: Background and Context
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Screen Education
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 93-99
    Publisher: ATOM + the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)(Melbourne)
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  • The Third Man: Scene by Scene Analysis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Screen Education
    Volume: 35
    Page numbers: 97-103
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • 'It's Harry I'm Planning to Marry': Oedipal Desire in Carol Reed's The Third Man
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Screen Education
    Volume: 33
    Issue: Summer
    Page numbers: 131-135
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  • Brush Up Your Shakespeare: Performance Anxieties in Shakespeare in Love
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Film and Video
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 3-15
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  • Citizens, Friends and Shattered Illusions in Carol Reed's The Third Man
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Screen Education
    Volume: 32
    Issue: Spring
    Page numbers: 127-132
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • 'Are You Going to Do it Like That, Darling?': Performance Desire in Shakespeare in Love
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Screen Education
    Volume: 2002
    Issue: 29
    Page numbers: 158-163
    Publisher: ATOM + the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)(Melbourne)
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