Film, cultural studies, literature .

Australian film comedy; Hollywood cinema; cultural value and popular culture; generational difference and popular culture; popular film genres.

"A handshake and a smile: video-making, young people and mental health".

"Loose cannons: White masculinity and the vulgar teen comedy film". The Journal of Popular Culture.

"Strike Me Lucky: Social Difference and Consumer Culture in Roy Rene’s Only Film". Screening the Past 26 (December 2009). http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/26/strike-me-lucky.html

"The comedian comedies: George Wallace’s 1930s comedies, Australian cinema and Hollywood". Metro 158 (2008): 76-82. ISSN 0312 2654

"The possibilities of roads not taken: intellect and utopia in the films of Richard Linklater". Journal of Popular Film & Television 35.3 (September 2007): 98-106. ISSN 0195 6051

"Out of the Frying Pan: From Casual Teaching to Temp Work". Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labor in Higher Education. Ed. Rudolphus Teeuwen and Steffen Hantke. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007. ISBN 9789042023093

"When the Sun Sets over Suburbia: Class and Subculture in Bruce Beresford’s Puberty Blues". Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 20.3 (Sept. 2006): 407-418. ISSN 1469 3666

"'No matter how far you run’: Looking for Alibrandi and coming of age in Italo-Australian cinema and girlhood". Screening the Past 19 (2006). http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/19/looking-for-alibrandi.html ISSN 1328 9756

"Life as a Pizza: The Comic Traditions of Wogsploitation Films". Metro 146/147 (2005): 136-144. ISSN 0312 2654

"You and Me Against the World: Revisiting Puberty Blues". Metro 140 (2004). 54-60. ISSN 0312 2654

"A World Ruled by Hilarity: Gender and Low Comedy in the Films of Amy Heckerling". Senses of Cinema 22 (2002). 4 Oct. 2002 www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/22/heckerling.html ISSN 1443 4059

"Reading, writing and unruliness: Female education in the St Trinian’s films". International Journal of Cultural Studies 5.2 (June 2002): 221-238. ISSN 1367 8779

"Moving On Up: Education in Black American Youth Films". Journal of Popular Film & Television 29.2 (Summer 2001): 82-91. ISSN 0195 6051

"Together in Electric Dreams: Films Revisiting 1980s Youth". Journal of Popular Film & Television 28.1 (Spring 2000): 22-29. ISSN 0195 6051

"Millennium Man: Comedy and Masculinity in the Films of Mike Myers". Metro 120 (1999): 56-64. ISSN 0312 2654

"Tuesday's Gone: The Nostalgic Teen Film". Journal of Popular Film & Television 26.1 (Spring 1998): 24-32. ISSN 0195 6051

"Pastel Romances: The Teen Films of John Hughes". Metro 113/114 (1998): 103-110. ISSN 0312 2654

"Kids". Metro 105 (1996): 4-10. ISSN 0312 2654

"Good Fun and Bad Hair Days: Girls in Teen Film". Metro 101 (1995): 24-30. ISSN 0312 2654

"Strike Me Lucky (Ken G. Hall, 1934)." Key Moments in Australian Cinema. Senses of

Cinema 52 (2009). <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/strike-me-lucky-ken-g-hall-1934/>

"Leonie Naughton: The Pleasure of Reinvention". Screening the Past 22 (December 2007).

<http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/22/memoriam-leonie-naughton-speed.html>

Rev. of Genre and Contemporary Hollywood, ed. Steve Neale. Metro 139 (2004): 196-198.

Rev. of Sugar, spice and everything nice: Cinemas of girlhood, ed. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance. Metro 137 (2003): 174-175.

Rev. of Shooting Fish, dir. Stefan Schwartz. Cinema Papers 126 (August 1998): 39-40.

"Courting Courtney", "East Side Story", "Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask", " Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead", "Pretty Village Pretty Flame ". Melbourne International Film Festival program, 1997.