Dr Lesley Speed
Lecturer
BA(Hons), PhD(Monash)
email: l.speed@ballarat.edu.au
phone: (03) 53279759

Teaching Areas

Film, literature, cultural studies.

Areas of Research Interest

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

Forthcoming Publications

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

Refereed Publications

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

"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.

"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.

"'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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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