Wendy Haslem teaches and researches the intersections of film history and new media.
She is the author of From Melies to New Media: Spectral Projections (Intellect, 2019), the co-author of Experimenta: Playground (2007) and a co-editor of the anthologies Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation (Routledge, 2019) and Super/Heroes: From Hercules to Superman (2007).

She is also the author of A Charade of Innocence and Vice: The Gothic Films of the 1940s (2009).

Articles on early film and digital cinema include 'Chromatic Frankenstein's Monsters: Restoration, Colour and Variants of George Melies' Voyage dans la lune' (2012), 'Sip My Ocean' (on the work of Pipilotti Rist, 2018) and 'Traces of the New in the Old: Distribution and Exhibition in Early and Late Film Culture' (2016).

Wendy teaches in the Screen Studies program, coordinating subjects that include - Film Noir: History and Sexuality, Introduction to Screen Studies, Censorship: Film, Art, Media and Exhibition: Film and Art. She is the Program Director - Bachelor of Arts.

Find out more about Wendy Haslem's experience

Wendy Haslem's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

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

Wendy Haslem's selected work

Superheroes: Creative Force, Cultutral Zeitgeist And Transmedia Phenomenon

Research Grant

5 must-see films at MIFF this weekend

NEWS ARTICLE

From Melies to New Media: Spectral Projections

Book

Gothic Projections: From Maya Deren To New Media

Internal Research Grant

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey: shocking to watch, important to witness

NEWS ARTICLE

Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation

Book

Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Wendy Haslem.

Superheroes: Creative Force, Cultutral Zeitgeist And Transmedia Phenomenon

Since their emergence in 1938 comic book heroes have become imbedded in our popular culture, becoming part of our modern mythology. In each ..

2016 - 2019

Completed

Gothic Projections: From Maya Deren To New Media

2008 - 2008

Completed

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Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 40 most recent scholarly works by Wendy Haslem.

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 ..

Affinity Spaces and Microworlds: The UCROO Experiment

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2014 | Screen Education

These Heathen Dreams: Rage and Tenderness

W HASLEM

Media | 2014

German Concentration Camps Footage: Shocking to Watch, Important to Witnes

W HASLEM

Media | 2014

Who Conned Catherine Breillat?: Abuse of Weakness at MIF

W HASLEM

Media | 2014

Flowering Blood: The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano by Sean Redmond

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2014 | Senses of Cinema

Women in Australian Cinema

W HASLEM

Book Chapter | 2013

The Art of Projection

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2012 | Cinema Journal

'Chromatic Frankenstein’s Monsters?’: Restoration, Colour and Variants of Georges Méliès’s Voyage dans la Lune

WL Haslem

Journal article | 2012 | Senses of Cinema

Digital memories: The McCoy’s Electronic Sculptures

WL Haslem

Journal article | 2012 | Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media

A Moving Image Experience: Il Cinema Ritrovato

WL Haslem

Journal article | 2011 | Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media

The Thirty-Nine Steps

W HASLEM

Audio Visual Recording | 2010

'Little Pieces of Infinity': Hiraki Sawa's 'O'

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2010 | Senses of Cinema

Floating Weeds

W HASLEM

Audio Visual Recording | 2010

Going places sitting down

Wendy Haslem

Journal article | 2009 | Computers in Entertainment

'A Charade of Innocence and Vice': Hollywood Gothic Films of the 1940s

W HASLEM

Book | 2009

L'Atalante

W HASLEM

Audio Visual Recording | 2009

Exhibiting Miniature Memories: The McCoy's Electronic Sculptures

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2009 | Antithesis

Night and the City

W HASLEM, AJ LING

Audio Visual Recording | 2009

A New Cinema: Immersive and Interactive

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2009 | RealTime

An Eye On Screen HIstory: Screen Worlds, ACMI

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2009 | RealTime

Film By Design: ACMI's Setting the Scene Exhibition

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2009 | RealTime

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

W HASLEM, G Murray

Audio Visual Recording | 2009

A Report on the 2nd Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2009 | Senses of Cinema

Traces of Gothic Spectrality in New Media Art

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2008 | The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2008 | Senses of Cinema

Audio Commentary for the film Western Union(directed by Fritz Lang), 1941

A NDALIANIS, W HASLEM

Audio Visual Recording | 2008

Experimenta: Playground

W HASLEM

Book Chapter | 2007

Playing Biennially: Experimenta Playground

W HASLEM

Journal article | 2007 | Artlink

Perception Is Reality: The Rise And Fall of Professional Wrestlers

W HASLEM

Book Chapter | 2007

The Goddess of 1967

W HASLEM

Book Chapter | 2007

"Every Home should have one of You": the serial killer disguised as the perfect husband

WL HASLEM

Journal article | 2003 | Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media

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Communication

Film, Television and Digital Media

Cultural Studies

Cinema, Electronic Arts and Multimedia

Expanding Knowledge

Arts and Leisure

Communication and Media Studies

Literary Studies

Other Studies in Human Society

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Displaying the 4 most recent news articles by Wendy Haslem.

5 must-see films at MIFF this weekend

Wendy Haslem

August 9, 2018

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey: shocking to watch, important to witness

Wendy Haslem

August 15, 2014

Who conned Catherine Breillat? Abuse of Weakness at MIFF

Wendy Haslem

August 11, 2014

These Heathen Dreams: rage and tenderness at MIFF 2014

Wendy Haslem

August 7, 2014

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Senior Lecturer In Cultural Management

Culture And Communication

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

La Trobe University

BA Arts(Hons)

La Trobe University

Bachelor of Arts

La Trobe University

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Find out more about Wendy Haslem's experience

Wendy Haslem's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

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

Wendy Haslem's selected work

Research Grant

NEWS ARTICLE

Book

Internal Research Grant

NEWS ARTICLE

Book

Wendy Haslem's selected work

Research Grant

NEWS ARTICLE

Book

Internal Research Grant

NEWS ARTICLE

Book

Projects

Superheroes: Creative Force, Cultutral Zeitgeist And Transmedia Phenomenon

Gothic Projections: From Maya Deren To New Media

2

Projects

Project Types

Scholarly Works

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

From Melies to New Media: Spectral Projections

Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation

Introducing the Superhero Body

Sip My Ocean: Immersion, Senses and Colour

The Prehistory of the Superhero: Filibus, Fantômas and Judex

Twin Peaks: Hyperconscious Histories of Mediation

Maya Deren

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

Affinity Spaces and Microworlds: The UCROO Experiment

These Heathen Dreams: Rage and Tenderness

German Concentration Camps Footage: Shocking to Watch, Important to Witnes

Who Conned Catherine Breillat?: Abuse of Weakness at MIF

Flowering Blood: The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano by Sean Redmond

Women in Australian Cinema

The Art of Projection

'Chromatic Frankenstein’s Monsters?’: Restoration, Colour and Variants of Georges Méliès’s Voyage dans la Lune

Digital memories: The McCoy’s Electronic Sculptures

A Moving Image Experience: Il Cinema Ritrovato

The Thirty-Nine Steps

'Little Pieces of Infinity': Hiraki Sawa's 'O'

Floating Weeds

Going places sitting down

'A Charade of Innocence and Vice': Hollywood Gothic Films of the 1940s

L'Atalante

Exhibiting Miniature Memories: The McCoy's Electronic Sculptures

Night and the City

A New Cinema: Immersive and Interactive

An Eye On Screen HIstory: Screen Worlds, ACMI

Film By Design: ACMI's Setting the Scene Exhibition

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

A Report on the 2nd Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

Traces of Gothic Spectrality in New Media Art

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

Audio Commentary for the film Western Union(directed by Fritz Lang), 1941

Experimenta: Playground

Playing Biennially: Experimenta Playground

Perception Is Reality: The Rise And Fall of Professional Wrestlers

The Goddess of 1967

"Every Home should have one of You": the serial killer disguised as the perfect husband

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Scholarly Works