Projects / books in development

I Am Robot And Proud
Book on Japanese manga, animation, music & popular culture - in development

Books

100 Anime
Book on Japanese animation - commissioned by the British Film Institute, London, 2005; second printing, 2006.

TEZUKA - The Marvel of Manga
Edited book on Tezuka's manga, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006; second printing, 2007.

Books translated into Japanese

100 Modern Soundtracks
Book on film scores and sound design - commissioned by the British Film Institute, London, 2004
Japanese edition published by Film Art, Tokyo, 2005

Curatorial projects

TEZUKA - The Marvel of Manga
Curated retrospective on Tezuka's manga - commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, late 2006; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, early 2007; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, mid 2007.

Focus on Tezuka
Curated retrospective programme of Tezuka's anime - commissioned by the Australian Centre of the Moving Image, Melbourne, December 2006 to January 2007; touring nationally in Australia throughout 2007; USA/Europe dates/venues in development.

AURAL GAZING- Japanese Audio-Vision
Catalogue essay & screening notes for Experimenta's VANISHING POINT exhibition, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2005

A LUST FOR VIOLENCE - Seijun Suzuki
Curated retrospective for the 49th Melbourne International Film Festival, 2000

MAYHEM, MAGIC & MAELSTROMS - Studio Ghibli
Curated retrospective for the 46th Melbourne International Film Festival, 1997; programme incorporated into the Asian Shadows Film Festival, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1998; programme and programme notes incorporated into the 23rd New Zealand International Film Festival, Dunedin, 2000

GLIMPSES OF A FANTASTIC IMAGINATION - Osamu Tezuka
Curated retrospective for the 44th Melbourne International Film Festival, 1995

KABOOM! Explosive Animation from America & Japan
Curated exhibition - commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1994

Articles / talks

Anime
Monthly column of mini-reviews of anime - published by Empire, Sydney - 2006-2008

Sexual Robots & Plastic Humans in Anime
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 ANIME) - VCA Film & Television School, Melbourne, 2008; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2008

Introduction to Osamu Tezuka's manga
unpublished slide lecture, Asian Studies Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, 2008

Sexual Robots & Plastic Humans in Anime
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 ANIME) - special lecture tour commissioned by the Consul of Japan & the Japanese Embassy, New Zealand & the Japan Foundation: University of Canterbury, Christchurch; Victoria UNiversity, Wellington; the Japan Information & Culture Centre, Wellington; Auckland Museum, Auckland, 2007

Sound: Nobuhiro Yamashita's 'Linda Linda Linda'
published in Film Comment Vol.43 No.4, July-August, New York, 2007

Sonic - Atomic - Neumonic: Apocalyptic Echoes in Japanese Animation
published in Illusion of Life 2 - Essays on Animation, Power Publications, Sydney, 2007 (from original presentation at the Illusion of Life conference, Sydney 1995)

How Sound Floats on Land: the Suppression & Release of Indigenous Musics on the Cinematic Terrain
excerpt reprinted in BEYOND THE SOUNDTRACK, University of California Press, 2007 (includes discussion of Kaidan)

Introduction to Osamu Tezuka's manga
unpublished slide lecture, Brisbane Writers Festival, Brisbane, 2007

various floor talks on Osamu Tezuka's manga
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2007

various floor talks on Osamu Tezuka's manga
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007

The 50 Best Things About Anime
Empire (Australian), Sydney, January 2007

Tezuka: From Manga to Anime
unpublished slide lecture, Chauvel Cinema, 2007; Revelation - Perth International Film Festival, 2007

'n_scape' and 'Becoming' as Acts of Japanese Art
published in Bijutsu Techo Vol.59 No.890, Tokyo, January 2007

The RAPT! Symposium - a Wandering Wrap-Up of Ideas Surfaced
published in the 2nd Volume catalogue for RAPT! 20 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM JAPAN, Tokyo, 2007

Misreading Manga
published in the catalogue for TEZUKA: The Marvel of Manga, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006

Tezuka's Gekiga - Behind The Mask
published in the catalogue for TEZUKA: The Marvel of Manga, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006

Tezuka: From Manga to Anime
unpublished slide lecture, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2006

various floor talks on Osamu Tezuka's manga
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006/2007

Sound: Katsuhito Ishii's 'Funky Forest'
published in Film Comment Vol.40 No.6, November-December, New York, 2006

Sexual Robots & Plastic Humans in Anime
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 ANIME) - VCA Film & Television School, Sydney, 2006

n-scape Japan: Traversing Contemporary Japanese Art
panel contribution for the RAPT! 20 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM JAPAN symposium, Asialink, Melbourne, 2006

Prismatic Japan: Angles on Contemporary Art from Japan
published in the catalogue for RAPT! 20 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM JAPAN, Tokyo, 2006

Manga & Anime in Australia
published in Wochi Kochi No.13 (the Japan Foundation Quarterly Newsletter), Tokyo, 2006

Sound: Alexander Sukurov's 'The Sun'
published in Film Comment Vol.40 No.3, May-June, New York, 2006

L'Amour Japan: Recent Frissons in Japanese Cinema
published in Metro Magazine No.149, Melbourne, 2006 (contains reviews of Heart Beating In The Dark (New Version), Green Minds Metal Bats, Analife, A Volatile Woman, The Lost Hum)

GANTZ: Evacuating the Self
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 ANIME) presented as a Popcorn Taxi event for the Melbourne launch of the book, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2006; presented as a Dendy Cinemas Special Event, Dendy Opera Quays, Sydney, 2006; presented by FullScreen, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 2006

METROPOLIS: Imagined Cities, Suppressed Architecture, Remembered Spirits
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 ANIME) University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2006

AKIRA: Post-atomic landscapes & post-sonic mindscapes
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 MODERN SOUNDTRACKS) University of Liverpool, UK, 2006; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2006

Anime & Manga - Tokyo
Lonely Planet - Tokyo, 2006

ARASHI GA OKA: The Sound of the World Turned Inside-Out
Japanese Horror Cinema, Edinburugh University Press, Edinburugh, 2005

Osamu Tezuka & Astro Boy
Notes to DVD box set of the 1980 colour ASTRO BOY, released in special edition by Madman Entertainment, Melbourne, 2004 (revised and adapted from the 1995 Melbourne International Film Festival catalogue introduction)

Dumb About Japan
published in Mesh No.17, Melbourne, 2004

Wire: Cinesonic No.3
Soundtrack CD reviews published in The Wire No. 249, London, October 2004 (contains reviews of Hana-bi. A Scene By The Sea, Dolls, Electric Dragon 80,000 Volts, Go Joe, Avalon)

Burnt In Burnt Out
catalogue essay for Phip Murray animation, ABC Strange Attractors national website/gallery, 2003 (includes discussion of post-atomic effects upon Japanese illustration techniques)

Manga As Art
unpublished talk delivered at Art Gallery of New South Wales, in conjunction with THE BEAUTY OF TRANSIENCE IN JAPANESE ART, Sydney, 2003 (discusses major screen works from 1800-1900 in the exhibtion as examples of pre-cinema perspective and origins of manga panel devices and narrativity)

I Am Robot & Proud
unpublished slide lecture delivered on Astro Boy's birthday at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2003 (on Osamu Tezuka's manga of robots, androids, cyborgs, replicants & clones)

Sounds of Sex & Violence
unpublished talk delivered at Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide, 2003 (includes section on Seijun Suzuki's Gate of Flesh)

Sound: Furi Kuri
published in Film Comment Vol.38 No.6, New York, 2002

Wire: Cinesonic No.1
Soundtrack CD reviews published in The Wire 226, London, December 2002 (contains reviews of the Go! Cinemania! series)

Vinyl Fantasy
published in Gloss No.4, Melbourne, 2002 (discusses Final Fantasy in relation to posthuman pornography)

Funny Accents: The Sound of Racism
published in CINESONIC: Experiencing The Soundtrack, AFTRS Publishing, Sydney, 2001 (includes discussion of Japanese/USA versions of Gojira/Godzilla & Kagi No Kagi/What's Up Tiger Lilly?

Body Mats & Super Slams: Sport, Sound & Violence
unpublished notes from talk presented at the 4th CINESONIC: International Conference on Film Scores & Sound Design, Melbourne, 2001 (includes discussion of Godzilla Vs. King Kong, Gangster Soldier & Fist of the North Star)

Monster Island: Godzilla & Japanese Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy
published in Postcolonial Studies, Vol.3 No.1, London, 2000 (includes discussion of the Godzilla cycle)

Osamu Tezuka's Manga
unpublished slide lecture delivered at Japanime Festival, Sydney, 2000

How Sound Floats on Land: the Suppression & Release of Indigenous Musics on the Cinematic Terrain
published in CINESONIC: Film & The Sound of Music, AFTRS Publishing, Sydney, 2000 (includes discussion of Kaidan)

The Rising Sun Set: The West's Fascination with Japan
unpublished panel discussion, The Melbourne Writer's Festival, Melbourne, 1999 (discusses posthuman pornography, multi-market manga, consensual S&M contracts, non-Christian bodies, British mediarising of Japan as weird)

I Scream in Silence: Cinema, Sex & the Sound of Women Dying
published in CINESONIC: The World of Sound in Film, AFTRS Publishing, Sydney, 1999 (includes discussion of Ninja Scroll, Vampire Princess Miyu)

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Tyranny of the English Voice in Anime
published as part of of the CINESONICS series, Real Time, Sydney, 1999

Re-inventing Tradition & Reverence for the Superficial
unpublished paper delivered @ an Asian Arts Society of Australia forum, Caulfield Arts Centre, Melbourne, 1999 (discusses manga in relation to calligraphy & painting, bonsai & gardening, architecture & geography, sound & silence)

Report: Manga & Anime in Australia
published in Comickers No.6, Tokyo, 1997

J'Taime Ginga Tetsudo 999
programme notes for stage musical version of Reiji Matsumoto's GALAXY EXPRESS 999, Tokyo, 1997

Asia Minor & Other Eastern Modes Part 1: The Skin of the Human Drum
published as part of of the SECRET HISTORY OF FILM MUSIC series, The Wire No. 161, July, London, 1997 (covers Godzilla, Kaidan, Akira)

Asia Minor & Other Eastern Modes Part 2: Sukiyaki, Chow Mein, Minestrone
published as part of of the SECRET HISTORY OF FILM MUSIC series, The Wire No.162, August, London, 1997 (covers The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Angel Dust, Labyrinth of Dreams, Arashi ga oka)

Sonic - Atomic - Neumonic: Apocalyptic Echoes in Japanese Animation
unpublished talk delivered at Life Of Illusion: 2nd International Conference on Animation, Sydney, 1995 (covers Akira, Laputa, Urotsuki Doji, Tottoro, Giant Robo)

Japanese Animation in the West
published in Filmnews No.117, Sydney, 1995

LABYRINTH OF DREAMS
catalogue entry for Ishii Sogo's film in the Melbourne International Film Festival, 1995

Ocular Excess: A Semiotic Morphology of Cartoon Eyes
Published in KABOOM! Explosive Animation from America & Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art Publications, Sydney, 1994; edited version reprinted in Art & Design No.53 (Special Issue: Art & Animation), UK, 1997 (includes discussion of Osamu Tezuka's manga & 80s kawaii anime)

KABOOM! Explosive Animation from America & Japan
Edited book on animation, Museum of Contemporary Art Publications, Sydney, 1994 (contains interviews conducted with Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo, Buichi Terasawa, Rumiko Takahashi, Kenichi Sonada)

TETSUO II: Mutant Offspring of Mutant Culture
catalogue essay for Japanese theatrical release of TETSUO II, 1993

Apocalyptic Scenarios In Japanese Pop Culture
unpublished talk/slide-lecture delivered @ the 41st Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, 1991 (discusses Godzilla, Akira, Patlabor, Urotsuki Doji)

No Comment On Images
unpublished talk (with Adrian Martin) delivered @ the Futurfall Conference on Postmodernism, Sydney University, 1984 (includes section on advertising imagery in Tokyo)