Professor James Donald

Research Expertise
James Donald was appointed Professor of Film Studies at the University of New South Wales in July 2003. He was previously the Professor of Media at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia, and before that he taught at the Open University and the University of Sussex in England. In the first half of 2003, he was Visiting Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna.

In the late 1970s, James Donald was editor of the journal Screen Education , and went on to found New Formations . He has written books about modern education and the modern city, as well as co-authoring The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information .He has edited a dozen books on cinema, the media, education, and cultural and social theory, as well as contributing to a variety of books and journals. His current projects include a book on the significance of two Black American stars, Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson, in the culture of modernism between the World Wars, and a comparative and historical account of universities and the media as modern institutions. Apart from editing a major new handbook on Film Studies, he is also trying to establish what cinema could be in the twenty-first century.

Among the research topics he has supervised are the use of photography in charity campaigns, the life and work of the Soviet filmmaker Esfir Shub, performance and architecture, sex education in the 1960s, cinema and avant-garde art in the 1970s, British cinema in the 1980s, and media policy and media uses in Iran in the 1990s.

Qualifications
PhD (Open University)
MSc (London)
BA (Oxford)

Current Appointment
Professor of Film Studies at the University of New South Wales

Publications
Significant Publications (1999-2004)
1. Donald, J. The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information (with Mark Balnaves and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald), New York: Penguin, 2001 (simultaneous editions in France, Germany and UK)
2. Donald, J. Imagining the Modern City, London: Athlone Press/Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999
3. Donald, J. Close Up, 1927-1933; Cinema and Modernism (editor, with Anne Friedberg and Laura Marcus), London: Cassell 1998/Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999
4. Donald, J. 'Can Cultural Studies survive the millennium" or, The battle of the books revisited', in Start Trek and End Game: Millennial Narratives, Images, Politics (ed. David Buchbinder), Perth: Black Swan Press, 2002
5. Donald, J. 'The immaterial city', in A Companion to the City , (ed. Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson), Oxford: Blackwell, 2000
6. Donald, J. 'The world turned upside down: Jeffrey Shaw's Place-Urbanity' , in (dis)LOCATIONS (ed. Astrid Sommer), Karlsruhe: ZKM/Sydney: Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, CoFA, University of New South Wales, 2001

Career-best Publications
1. Donald, J. The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information (with Mark Balnaves and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald), New York: Penguin, 2001 (simultaneous editions in France, Germany and UK)
2. Donald, J. Imagining the Modern City, London: Athlone Press/Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
3. Donald, J. Sentimental Education: Schooling, Popular Culture and the Regulation of Liberty , London: Verso, 1992
4. Donald, J. Close Up, 1927-1933; Cinema and Modernism (editor, with Anne Friedberg and Laura Marcus), London: Cassell 1998/Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999