Michael (mick) Broderick

Biography

Michael (Mick) Broderick is an Associate Professor of Media Analysis in the School of Arts at Murdoch University and Acting Director of the National Academy of Screen & Sound (NASS). He held elected positions on the national management committees of the Australian Research Council’s Cultural Research Network (CRN) in 2004-06 and the Australian Screen Production Educators Research Association (ASPERA) in 2006-07 and 2009-11. From 2000-2016 he was Associate Director of the Centre for Millennial Studies (Australian branch) at the University of Sydney. His scholarly writing has been translated into French, Italian and Japanese, and his major publications include the research monograph Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick’s ‘nightmare comedy’ (2017); editions of the reference work Nuclear Movies (1988, 1991) and, as editor, Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film (1996, 1999, 2014). Recent co-edited collections (with Antonio Traverso) include Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Art and Media (2011) and Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (2010).

Research Interest

Research Areas • national cinemas/media industries (Australia, USA, Japan, Rwanda) • government and institutional global media policy • nuclearism and apocalypse as a cultural phenomenon • trauma and representation • film history, film genre, non-fiction and documentary forms • critical theory, narrative • anime • cold war television and film history • gender and masculinity • interactive media technologies • dark tourism