Dr Lisa Milner BA(Hons)(UTS) PhD(Woll) Lisa Milner has been teaching at SCU since 2004, in the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research interests include Australian film and television production, community exhibition and organisation, union films, and documentary filmmaking, with a focus on the representation of working class and community groups.
Journal articles
Bastardising the Waterfront Dispute: production and critical reception of the Bastard Boys mini-series (with Rebecca Coyle), Communication, Politics & Culture (2010)
This article examines the production and reception of Bastard Boys, a television mini-series broadcast on...
Lee Papas (ed.), Staged action: six plays from the American Workers' Theatre.(Book review), Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History (2010)
Kenny: the evolution of the battler figure in Howard's Australia, Journal of Australian Studies (2009)
This article explores ways in which the low-budget mockumentary film Kenny (Clayton Jacobson, 2006) evolves...
Showing some fight: Kemira’s challenge to industrial relations (with Rebecca Coyle), Metro Magazine (2007)
Inspired by the ‘Work Choices’ policies initiated by the Coalition-led Australian Federal Government in 2006,...
Fighting through their filmwork: the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit, The Hummer (2004)
This essay examines the origins and development of a radical Australian film unit of the...
Books
Fighting films: a history of the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2003)
The Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit operated in Sydney from 1953 to 1958, making films...
Book chapters
The Waterside Workers’ Cultural Committee, Radical Sydney : places, portraits and unruly episodes (2010)
The Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit, The Oxford companion to Australian film (1999)
One of the few trade union film groups in Australia, this Sydney based unit was...
Radio broadcasts
Theses
'We film the facts': the Waterside Workers' Federation film unit, 1953 – 1958, PhD thesis, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW (2000)
This thesis explores the history of the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit. Comprising three filmmakers,...
Conference publications
Framing the unions: the changing images of unionists on screen, Labour history and its people: papers from the twelfth National Labour History Conference (2011)
Amongst the oldest holdings of the National Film and Sound Archives is a newsreel segment...
Labour biography on screen: the case of Freda Brown (with Rosemary Webb), Labour history and its people: papers from the twelfth National Labour History Conference (2011)
The written biographies and memoirs of activists and leaders have long been core components of...
Kenny and Australian cinema in the Howard era, Remapping cinema, remaking history: XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. Conference Proceedings. Volume Two: Selected Full Refereed Papers (2009)
The “battler” figure has been a popular and enduring character in the Australian cultural imagination,...
Commos and ratbags: left-wing images of urban Australia, Images of the Urban: conference proceedings (1998)
The cultural construction of the past in Australia has a variety of sources. There are...