Dr. Ann Hardy
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Senior Lecturer |
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MA Cant Dip Journ. Dip. Film & TV Production (Middlesex) PhD Waikato |
| Email: |
yhdra@waikato.ac.nz |
| Location: |
I.4.26 |
| Contact: |
(07 838 4466 ext 6223 |
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Research Interests:
Ann's professional experience includes work as a radio and television journalist and as a video producer in private and state sector production units. From the mid 1980s this commercial work was combined with tutoring at Film and Theatre Studies at Victoria University, Wellington, and at this time she also began writing a series of articles on New Zealand women's filmmaking for the magazine Illusions.
Ann now teaches in the Department of Screen and Media Studies at Waikato University, Hamilton where her specialisations include: Aotearoa/New Zealand screen, narrative theory, scriptwriting and communications theory. Ann's doctoral research was into the constructions of religion and spirituality understood and employed by workers in the local film and television industries. This project prompted her to develop, in 2002, New Zealand's first university course devoted to the intersections of religion and the media; a field she has continued to explore in a number of publications.
Current projects include: an investigation into New Zealand churches' use of website technologies (with Mary Griffiths); the ethical implications of police/media interactions in high-profile crime cases (with Alastair Gunn); and research and preparation of a book about religion and the media in New Zealand.
Selected Publications:
Scholarship and Research Publications
Monographs:
Sites of Value: Discourses of Religion and Spirituality in the Production of a New Zealand Film and Television Series. Ph.D. thesis, Waikato University. August 2003.
Film, Spirituality and Hierophany. Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales, Lampeter, 2002. (refereed monograph, 60pp)
Book Chapters:
Beyond Materialism? Spirituality and Neo-Utopian Sensibility in Recent New Zealand Film. in Ian Conrich and Stuart Murray, (eds.) 2008, Contemporary New Zealand Cinema: From New Wave to Blockbuster. London: I.B. Tauris, pp.119-135.
'Jane Campion and the Moral Occult'. In Hilary Radner Alistair Fox & Irene Bessiére, (eds.) Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation and Identity.(2009). Wayne State University Press
‘There and back again The Lord of the Rings, Contemporary Religiosity and Cinema’. In Cubitt, Jutel, Margolis (eds.) 2009. How to Study the Event Movie: The Lord of the Rings – a case study. Manchester University Press. Pp.205-213.
‘The Heroine’s Journey? Women and Spiritual Questing in New Zealand Film and Television’. In Heidi Karriker, (ed.) 2002. Film Studies: Women in Contemporary World Cinema, Peter Lang Publishing pp.
‘The Last Patriarch'. In Harriet Margolis (ed.) Jane Campion's ‘The Piano’. Cambridge University Press. (2000) pp. 59-85
'Nation-Branding and the Imagined New Zealand'. In Emmerich, Monica and Stewart Hoover eds. Media, Spiritualities and Social Change. Continuum (forthcoming)
'The Unauthorised Word: Destiny, the Exclusive Brethren and Mediated Political Campaigning in New Zealand'. In Michael Bailey, Anthony McNicholas & Guy Redden (eds.) Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century. Ashgate (forthcoming)
Refereed Journal Articles
General Interests:
The role of media in assisting (and hindering) social change, especially in relation to 'deep' values, such as those mobilized in religious belief systems.
Creative projects as expressions of interactions between either/both individual or group imagination and changing social contexts.
New forms of identity being created out of the various flows of people, ideas, practices and money resulting from the intensification of globalisation
Expertise:
I have been studying and writing about the media in New Zealand since the mid 1980s, so I have a wide knowledge of New Zealand film and television production, especially that involving women in the second half of the twentieth century.
My research since the late 1990s has concentrated on intersections between the media and contemporary religiosity.
I have been a radio and television journalist, scriptwriter and a video producer so my interpretations of contemporary media phenomena are coloured by understanding of the complex realities of production processes.
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