St Andrews Film Studies Departmental Speaker Series - Dr Stephen Morgan

Department of Film Studies, St Andrews

Dr Stephen Morgan will be discussing his brilliant work on Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout, landscape, and settler colonialism.

The Department of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews is thrilled to welcome Dr Stephen Morgan, to discuss his work on landscape and settler colonialism in Australian cinema.Deep Time, Deep Space: Towards a Geologic Cinema in WalkaboutThe centrality of landscape has long been a key focus of representations of Australia on screen. But relatively little attention has been paid to what happens when cinema&#x27;s focus on geological formations moves beyond the purely pictorial or touristic or descriptive. In interrogating the temporal disjunctions at the heart of Nicolas Roeg&#x27;s Walkabout (1971), this paper seeks to explore its address of landscape via a contextualisation of the relationships and resonances of the film’s geological and historical pasts. By reconciling the film’s diverse, geographically disparate shooting locations with European and Indigenous understandings of geomorphology, and contrasting that with more recent colonial histories, I aim to uncover the layers of narrative – temporal, geological, and metaphorical – that underpin this iconic vision of the land now known as Australia. In doing so, I seek to articulate the role of geological timescales within the film, and how we might begin to think ‘geologically’ about the film and, more broadly, about national cinemas in settler contexts.The event will include a presentation followed by a Q&amp;A session. All are welcome! Author BioDr Stephen Morgan is a film historian and academic, whose work focuses on the cinemas of Britain and its former settler colonies. He is co-editor of a collection of essays entitled Screening Australia: Culture and Media in Context (Peter Lang, 2022), and author of the upcoming monograph, Ealing Abroad: Post-War British Cinema, Settler Colonialism and Ealing Studios in Australia (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023).

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