Professor Jonathon Stratton
Professor of Cultural Studies, Curtin University of Technology
Publications
Books
Coming Out Jewish: Constructing Ambivalent Identities, Routledge, 2000
Paperback edition of The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption University of Illinois Press, 2000
Race Daze: Australia in Identity Crisis, Pluto Australia, 1998.
Chapters in Books
Reprint of 'The Color of Jews in Australia: Jews, Race, and the White Australia Policy' in Peter Beilharz ed. Zygmunt Bauman, vol. 4, Sage, 2002, pp 237-259.
Reprint of 'Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and National Identity in Australia' by Ien Ang and Jon Stratton in Ien Ang On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West, Routledge, 2001, pp 95-111.
'La république imaginée: L'identité nationale australienne et le républicanisme des années 1990' in Caroline Mackenzie ed. Australie: Autoportraits, 2000. This is a translation of Chapter Five of Race Daze
Reprint of 'Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture' in David Bell ed. The Cybercultures Reader, Routledge, 2000, pp 721-731.
Reprint of 'The Beast of the Apocalypse: The Postcolonial Experience of the United States' in Richard King ed. Postcolonial America, University of Illinois Press, 2000, pp 21-51.
'Postcoloniality, Race and the Land of New Promise' in Richard King ed. Postcolonial America, University of Illinois Press, 2000, pp 51-64.
Reprint of section from Jon Stratton and Ien Ang 'Sylvania Waters and the Spectacular Exploding Family' in Paul Marris and Sue Thornham eds. Media Studies: A Reader (2nd ed.), Edinburgh University Press, 1999, pp 611-620.
'The Color of Jews in Australia: Jews, Race and the White Australia Policy' in Sander Gilman and Milton Shain eds. Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict, University of Illinois Press, 1999, pp 309-334.
'Multiculturalism and the Whitening Machine, or How Australians Become White' in Ghassan Hage and Rowanne Couch eds. The Future of Australian Multiculturalism: Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of Jean Martin's The Migrant Presence, Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, 1999, pp 163-188.
'Building a Better Body: Male Bodybuilding, Spectacle and Consumption' in Toby Miller and Randy Martin eds. SportCult, Minnesota University Press, 1999, pp 151-172.
Refereed Articles
'Whiter Rock: The 'Australian Sound' and the Beat Boom' in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 17, no 3, 2003, pp 331-346.
'Not Really White?Again; Performing Jewish Difference in Hollywood Films Since the 1980s,' in Screen, vol 42, no 2, 2001, pp142-166.
'Not Just Another Multicultural Story: The English, From 'Fitting In' to Self-Ethnicisation,' in Journal of Australian Studies, no 66, 2000, pp 23-47, 251-255.
'Thinking Through the Holocaust: A Discussion inspired by Hilene Flanzbaum The Americanization of the Holocaust Johns Hopkins 1999,' in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 14, no 2, 2000, pp 231-245.
"I Don't Like It': Pauline Pantsdown and the Politics of the Inauthentic,' in Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal for Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, vol 4, no 4, 2000, pp 3-28.
Interview with Simon Hunt, aka Pauline Pantsdown, in Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal for Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, vol 4, no 4, 2000, pp 34-44.
'Jewishness and Identity' in AntiTHESIS: An Annual Transdisciplinary Postgraduate Journal, vol 10, 1999, pp 46-64. (Invited contributor).
'Speaking as a Jew: On the Absence of a Jewish Speaking Position in British Cultural Studies' in European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 1, no 3, 1998, pp.307-325.
'Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and National Identity in Australia' by Ien Ang and Jon Stratton in Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 1, no 2, 1998, pp22-41.
Current Research Interests
youth cultures
film
serial killers
Identity
multiculturalism in Australia
Jewishness
the Holocaust
Australian popular music