Dr Rebecca Coyle BEd(State College of Vic) MA(UTS) PhD(Macq) Rebecca Coyle has taught at SCU since 2003, and also at Macquarie University, Sydney, the University of Technology, Sydney, and for various other institutions in London and Sydney. Her research interests centre on Australian cultural productions and critical analysis. She has published on various aspects of radio production, holographic art, sound art, country music and documentary film. Most recently, her publications have coalesced around cinema music and sound, and she is also working on television sound and film music as a creative industry projects. She is currently leading a team of researchers on the four-year ARC Discovery Project DP0770026 ‘Music production and technology in Australian Film: enabling Australian film to embrace innovation’. She is on the Editorial Boards for three international journals, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (Sage); The Soundtrack (Intellect) and The Journal of Film Music (The International Film Music Society, USA).
Journal articles
Priscilla's performances: songs and national identifiers in Australian cinema, Music and the Moving Image (2008)
Showing some fight: Kemira’s challenge to industrial relations (with Lisa Milner), Metro Magazine (2007)
Inspired by the ‘Work Choices’ policies initiated by the Coalition-led Australian Federal Government in 2006,...
Ether to 01: digitising radio, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2006)
Marking time in the Barry McKenzie films' music (with Michael Hannan), Screening the Past: Popular Music and Film (2005)
This article examines aspects of the music of the Barry McKenzie films directed by Bruce...
Light from shadow: the legacy of chiaroscuro in spatial imaging, Australia, 2003, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2004)
Books
Drawn to sound: animation film music and sonicity, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2009)
Animation films are widely consumed in the general population and the study of animation films...
Reel tracks: Australian feature film music and cultural identities, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2005)
Over the last decade popular cinema has employed a variety of forms of music. These...
Screen scores: studies in contemporary Australian film music, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (1998)
Apparition: holographic art in Australia (with Philip Hayward), School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (1995)
Long before virtual reality captured the imagination, holography provided artists with a new, challenging, three-dimensional...
Sound in space: adventures of Australian sound art, 26 May - 22 August 1995 / curated by Rebecca Coyle, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (1995)
Sound in Space features both new and extant works. The exhibition aims to present exemplary...
Book chapters
Texas chainsaws: audio effect and iconicity (with Philip Hayward), Terror tracks: music, sound and horror cinema (2008)
Nashville and back: country music and film representation in Doing Time for Patsy Kline, Australian Country Music (2005)
Untangling Lantana: a study of film sound production, Reel tracks: Australian feature film music and cultural identities (2005)
Country folk: the 'voices' of John Williamson and Sara Storer, Australian Country Music Volume 2 (2004)
Theses
Scoring Australia: film music and Australian identities in Young Einstein, Strictly Ballroom and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, PhD Thesis, Macquarie University (2002)
Conference publications
Spectacular synchronisation: songs, animation and Happy Feet (with Philip Hayward), Music on the edge : selected papers from 2007 IASPM Australia/New Zealand Conference (2008)
Radio Norfolk: community and communication on Norfolk Island, 2nd International Small Island Cultures Conference (2006)
Bazza's bawdy ballads...and other aspects of Barry McKenzie film music, 12th Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association (2005)
Calling Australia home: Australian film music, Changing sounds: new directions and configurations in popular music, IASPM 1999 Conference (2000)
Sound recordings