Dr Michael Broderick
School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch University
Current ARC Projects
2003-05 “Is Australian Pay-TV Meeting its Promise?”
International Linkages
UN International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna)
US Physicians for Social Responsibility
Publications
Books
Broderick, Mick. (Ed.). (1999). Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. Tokyo: Gendai-shokan.
Chapters in Books
Broderick, Mick and Mark Gibson. (forthcoming). 'Mourning and Memorabilia: the Consumer Logics of Collecting 9/11'. In Dana Heller (Ed.) Commodity Heroism: The Marketing of 9/11.
Broderick, Mick. (forthcoming). 'Better the Devil You Know: The Antichrist at the Millennium'. In Ian Conrich and Julian Petley (Eds). HorrorZone. London: Verso.
Broderick, Mick. (in press). 'Uneasy Allies: the Shifting Representation of Americans in Post-WWII Australian Cinema'. PostScript, 2004.
Broderick, Mick. (2004). 'Is this the Sum of Our Fears? Nuclear Imagery in Post-Cold War Cinema'. In Michael Amundson and Scott C. Zeman (Eds). Atomic Culture. Boulder: University of Colorado Press: 127-149.
Broderick, Mick. (2003). 'Releasing the Hounds: The Simpsons as Anti-nuclear satire' In John Alberty (Ed.). Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press: 244-272.
Refereed Articles
Broderick, Mick. (2003). 'Spirited Away by Miyazaki's Fantasy'. Intersections, 9.
Broderick, Mick. (2002). 'The Buck Stops Here: Harry S. Truman and MGM's The Beginning or the End'. Proceedings of the Inaugural Film and History Conference, University of Cape Town, South Africa, July.
Broderick, Mick. (2002). 'Anime's Apocalypse: Neon Genesis Evangelion as Millennarian Mecha'. Intersections, 7.
Broderick, Mick, Mark Gibson and Duane Varan. (2001). A Call for a Cultural Inquiry. Forum Papers--Communication Research Forum, Department of Communication, Information Technology and the Arts, Canberra, 3A: 2-19.
Broderick, Mick. (1999). 'Nuclear frisson: Cold War Cinema and Human Radiation Experiments'. Film/Literature Quarterly, 27/3: 196-201.
Current Research Interests
nuclearism and apocalypse as a cultural phenomena
film history
non-fiction and documentary film forms
national cinemas/media industries (Australian, US, Japanese)
government and institutional cultural and media policy
film genre
critical theory
narrative
cold war television history
interactive media technologies
virtual and digital tourism
ephemera and cultural artefacts
gender and masculinity