Djoymi Baker's research revolves around how concepts of genre and genre hybrids are used and received in screen media and visual culture, particularly across science fiction, the epic, children’s television, and documentary hybrids. Connecting this work is an interest in the way images of the past and the future are harnessed in popular culture texts and paratexts to reconceptualise the present.Published works include the monograph To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek (2018), and the co-authored Encyclopedia of Epic Films (2014).
Her research features in books such as Millennial Mythmaking (2010), Star Trek as Myth (2010), The Age of Netflix (2017), and The New Peplum (2018). She previously worked in television news and current affairs.
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Predestination: Uncanny (mis)recognition, science fiction and ‘home movie’ moments
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
The School of Culture and Communication Excellence in Teaching Award (Graduate)
Chancellor's Prize for 2005in Humanities and Creative Arts
Fellow of the School of Culture and Communication
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It Access
Culture And Communication
Teaching Specialist In Screen Studies
Culture And Communication
Casual
Culture And Communication
Casual
Culture And Communication
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Fan Studies Network Australasia
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Australian Reception Network
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Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network
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Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAANZ)
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Melbourne Screen Studies Group (MSSG)
Education
Cinema Studies
University of Melbourne
Arts
University of Melbourne