Mark David Ryan
Dr. Mark Ryan, publishing as Mark David Ryan, is an Associate Professor in screen and media industries and a Chief Investigator for the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology. He is an expert in screen industries research, Australian horror and genre cinema, and genre film studies. He was the President of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAAZ) between 2015 and 2018.
Biography
Dr. Mark Ryan, publishing as Mark David Ryan, is an Associate Professor in screen and media industries and a Chief Investigator for the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology. He is an expert in screen industries research, Australian genre cinema, genre film studies, and digital media. He was the President of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAAZ) between 2015 and 2018 and an Executive Member of Australian Screen Producers Education and Research Association (ASPERA) in 2015/2016. He is the co-editor of Australian Genre Film (with Kelly McWilliam, 2021, Routledge), Australian Screen in the 2000s (2017, Palgrave Macmillan), and the Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 (2015, Intellect). Ryan is a Chief Investigator of two Australian Research Council Linkage projects: Valuing Web Series: Economic, Industrial, Cultural and Social Value (2019-2023) and Australian Cultural & Creative Activity: A Population & Hotspot Analysis (2017-2020).His research has been published in leading film and media studies journals, including New Review of Film & Television Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, Senses of Cinema, and Studies in Australasian Cinema. His book chapters appear in collections published by leading international academic publishers including Routledge, Sage, University of Toronto Press, University of Ottawa Press, and Bloomsbury Press. Mark has edited special issues in key film and media journals.
Education
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PhD, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2009
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Australian cinema
Australian horror movies
Australian genre film
Screen industry research
Screen genre studies
Personal Interests
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Ancient history
Naval and maritime history
Castles
Basketball
Books
Articles
Australian Film Genre Studies.
Published: May 05, 2021 by Australian Genre Film
Authors: Mark David Ryan and Kelly McWilliam
This article is an introduction to Australian genre film studies and it examines the complex industrial, economic, and cultural factors that have shaped the tenuous position of genre films in Australian industry practices, film culture, policy frameworks, and public funding initiatives since the mid-1970s.
Australian Screen in the 2000s: An Introduction
Published: May 09, 2017 by Australian Screen in the 2000s
Authors: Mark David Ryan and Ben Goldsmith
Subjects:
Film and Video, Media and Cultural Studies
Since 2000, approaches to Australian film and television are necessarily diverse, less concerned with totalising narratives around a national imaginary and with problematising national discourses than they are with responding to current trends and configurations in texts, production, distribution, exhibition and consumption. With a specific focus on the years from 2000 to 2015, this collection offers coverage of the diversity of Australian screen during this period.
A Silver Bullet for Australian Cinema? Genre Movies and the Audience Debate.
Published: May 05, 2012 by Studies in Australasian Cinema
Authors: Mark David Ryan
Subjects:
Film and Video, Media and Cultural Studies
This article argues that genre production is not a silver bullet that will single-handedly improve the Australian feature film industry's commercial performance. Genre movies have occupied, and continue to occupy, a difficult position within Australian cinema.
Rethinking Genre Studies through Distribution Analysis: Issues in International Horror Movie Circuits
Published: May 05, 2011 by New Review of Film and Television Studies
Authors: Ramon Lobato and Mark David Ryan
Subjects:
Film and Video, Media and Cultural Studies
The article proposes an alternative approach to genre studies based on an analysis of distributive circuits rather than film texts or generic categories that develops a conceptual framework that accounts for the multiple ways in which distribution networks leave their traces on film texts and audience expectations.