Brian's research interests include: contemporary Asian film genres and industry trends; the history of Hollywood in Asia; the coming of sound (1893-1937) to Austral-Asia; film and cultural policy in colonial Korea; the digital wave in China and South Korea’s cultural industries.
Articles
Power of the Korean film producer: Dictator Park Chung Hee's forgotten film cartel of the 1960s golden decade and its legacy (with Ae-Gyung Shim), Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive) (2012)
After censorship was eliminated in 1996, a new breed of writer-directors created a canon of...
Power of the Korean film producer: Dictator Park Chung Hee's forgotten film cartel of the 1960s golden decade and its legacy (with Ae-Gyung Shim), Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive) (2012)
After censorship was eliminated in 1996, a new breed of writer-directors created a canon of...
Contemporary Korean Cinema: Challenges and the Transformation of ‘Planet Hallyuwood’ (with Ae-Gyung Shim), Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive) (2011)
This article examines how the South Korean cinema has undergone a transformation from an ‘antiquated...
Contemporary Korean Cinema: Challenges and the Transformation of ‘Planet Hallyuwood’ (with Ae-Gyung Shim), Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive) (2011)
This article examines how the South Korean cinema has undergone a transformation from an ‘antiquated...
Digital intermediary: Korean transnational cinema (with Ben Goldsmith and Ae-Gyung Shim), Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive) (2011)
Since censorship was lifted in Korea in 1996, collaboration between Korean andforeign filmmakers has grown...
Books
Korea's Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948 (with Ae-Gyung Shim), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2011)
Korea’s Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948 compares and contrasts the development of cinema in Korea during the...
Traces of Korean Cinema from 1945-1959, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2003)
Contributions to Books
Inroads for cultural traffic: breeding Korea’s cinematiger, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2010)
The Golden Age of Hallyuwood – the fusion of Hallyu and Hollywood – facilitated and...
Sejong Park's 'Birthday Boy' and Korean-Australian Encounters (with Ben Goldsmith), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
This chapter focuses on some of the flows of film work between Australia and South...
Strategies for sharing the ReMoTe: changing the nature of online collaboration (with Richard Caladine), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
Online learning or e-learning has had an impact on the way many institutions around the...
Talking salvation for the silent majority: projecting new possibilities of modernity in the Australian cinema, 1929-1933, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
This chapter analyses the distinctiveness of the coming of permanent sound (the talkies) to the...
Talking Salvation for the Silent Majority: Projecting New Possibilities of Modernity in the Australian Cinema, 1929-1933, in J. Damousi & D. Desley Deacon (Eds.), Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound (2007)
This chapter analyses the distinctiveness of the coming of permanent sound (the talkies) to the...
Presentations
What the boomerang misses: pursuing international film co-production treaties and strategies, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
This refereed paper illustrates some of the dynamic ways that members of the Korean, Australian,...
Post-burden or new burden Korean cinema?: outside looking in at the latest Golden Age, 1996-?, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
This work-in-progress examines the paradoxical nature of what I call Koreas post-burden cinema a present-day...