Wendy Haslem

teamLab Borderless: Bridging Borders in Simulated Ecologies

Wendy Haslem

Journal article  |  2020  |  MAST: The Journal of Media Arts Study and Theory

This article begins by identifying the ways that spatial borders were destroyed during Australia’s Black Summer fires. It then con..

Hidden Images: The Disappearance and Re-appearance of the Leader Lady

Wendy Haslem

Journal article  |  2020  |  Senses of Cinema

am in a darkened back room of The Australian Mediatheque watching one of the 128 films that were donated to The Australian Centre ..

From Melies to New Media: Spectral Projections

Wendy Haslem

Book  |  2019

From Méliès to New Media contributes to a dynamic stream of film history that is just beginning to understand that new media forms..

Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation

Wendy Haslem, Sarah Richardson, Elizabeth MacFarlane

Book  |  2019

Throughout the history of the genre, the superhero has been characterised primarily by physical transformation and physical differ..

Introducing the Superhero Body

W Haslem, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Sarah Richardson

Book Chapter  |  2019

In the two mediums where superheroes “live” most of their time – comics and lm – the body of the character is at its most visible,..

Sip My Ocean: Immersion, Senses and Colour

W Haslem

Journal article  |  2018  |  Fusion Journal

Pipilotti Rist’s exhibition Sip My Ocean at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (2017-18) is a dynamic example of screen cult..

The Prehistory of the Superhero: Filibus, Fantômas and Judex

W Haslem

Book Chapter  |  2018

This volume collects essays that attend to the physicality of superheroes: the transformative bodies of superheroes, the superhero..

Twin Peaks: Hyperconscious Histories of Mediation

W Haslem, R O'Meara, J Beckett

Journal article  |  2017  |  Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media

David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) creates a sophisticated hyperconscious web that intersects televisual and cinematic te..

Maya Deren

W HASLEM

Book Chapter  |  2016

This collection of 54 biographical essays examines many overlooked and underrated figures who have played a role in the ever expan..

Traces of the New in the Old: Distribution and Exhibition in Early and Late Film Culture

W HASLEM

Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal of Australasian Cinema

Screen Australia’s report Beyond the Box Office: Understanding Audiences in a Multi Screen World (2011) identifies the resilience ..