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Dr James Findlay
BA (Media Communications) UNSW, Grad Cert AFTRS, PhD Sydney
Lecturer in Australian History
Address
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
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James Findlay is lecturer in the discipline of history where he teaches Australian history and researches historical film and television studies, convict history, Australian popular culture, and public history. He has held the Australian Film Institute Research Collection Fellowship and prior to his appointment was the Archival Project Manager for the Society of Australian Genealogists. Before becoming a historian he worked extensively in film and television production, mostly in the field of documentary, for companies including Beyond Television, Screenworld, and Film Australia.
- Twentieth century Australian history
- Public history
- Historical film and television studies
- Convict history and settler colonialism
- Australian popular culture
- Historical commemoration and representation in the media
- Dark tourism
- HSTY3811 History Beyond the Classroom
- HSTY3805 Australian History
- HSTY1089 Introduction to Australian History
Availible for supervision of Honours students working in the field of Australian History.
- Framing the frontier: Australian settler colonialism on Television after 1970.This project will produce new knowledge about the ways the frontier has been imagined on Australian screens, and how television has ascribed meaning to the processes and outcomes of settler colonialism for audiences.
Honorary Associate: Centre for Media History, Macquarie University
- Australian Film Institute Research Collection (AFIRC) Research Fellowship
- Jill Roe Prize (Awarded by the Australian Historical Association)
- Vice Chancellor's Award Student Experience Excellence
- Commendation for Teaching Excellence (FASS)
- Dean’s Citation for Excellence in Tutorials (with distinction)
Publications
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Book Chapters
- Findlay, J. (2023). 'It's a bastard of a place - takes a bastard to lick it': Violence, victimhood and nationalism on the frontier in Luke's Kingdom and Against the Wind. Writing Australian History on Screen, (pp. 29-48). Lanham: Lexington Books.
- Findlay, J. (2022). Screening Australia's Colonisation in Banished (2015): Colony v Metropole (forthcoming). Screening Australia: Culture, Media, Context. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Journals
- Findlay, J. (2024). Digital history at street level: mapping the past in Darlinghurst: "Darlinghurst: A Digital History Project Mapping the People and Places of Liverpool Street". History Australia, 21(2), 291-292. [More Information]
- Arrow, M., Findlay, J. (2020). A critical introduction to The Nightingale: gender, race and troubled histories on screen. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 14(1), 3-14. [More Information]
- Findlay, J. (2020). Convict/Aboriginal partnerships and ruptured histories in The Nightingale. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 14(1), 63-76. [More Information]
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Edited Journals
- Arrow, M., Findlay, J. (2020). The Nightingale: Gender, Race and Troubled Histories on Screen. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 14(1).
Magazine / Newspaper Articles
- Findlay, J. (2020). Friday essay: projecting light onto a dark history – how mid-century cinema resurrected Port Arthur's convict past. Friday essay: projecting light onto a dark history - how mid-century cinema resurrected Port Arthur's convict past. [More Information]
Other
- Findlay, J. (2020), Duty and Destiny.
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2024
- Findlay, J. (2024). Digital history at street level: mapping the past in Darlinghurst: "Darlinghurst: A Digital History Project Mapping the People and Places of Liverpool Street". History Australia, 21(2), 291-292. [More Information]
2023
- Findlay, J. (2023). 'It's a bastard of a place - takes a bastard to lick it': Violence, victimhood and nationalism on the frontier in Luke's Kingdom and Against the Wind. Writing Australian History on Screen, (pp. 29-48). Lanham: Lexington Books.
2022
- Findlay, J. (2022). Screening Australia's Colonisation in Banished (2015): Colony v Metropole (forthcoming). Screening Australia: Culture, Media, Context. Oxford: Peter Lang.
2020
- Arrow, M., Findlay, J. (2020). A critical introduction to The Nightingale: gender, race and troubled histories on screen. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 14(1), 3-14. [More Information]
- Findlay, J. (2020). Convict/Aboriginal partnerships and ruptured histories in The Nightingale. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 14(1), 63-76. [More Information]
- Findlay, J. (2020), Duty and Destiny.
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2019
- Findlay, J. (2019). Cinematic landscapes, dark tourism and the ghosts of Port Arthur. History Australia, 16(4), 678-694. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2022
- Australian Film Institute Research Collection Fellowship, $5,000