Professor Tom O'Regan

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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies

BA (Hons), PhD GRIFF, FAHA

office: 620 Michie
phone: 336 53327
email: t.oregan@uq.edu.au  

Tom O'Regan on UQResearchers
 
 
Author of:

• The Film Studio (2005) with B. Goldsmith.
• Australian National Cinema (1996) and Australian Television Culture (1993).
• Articles and book chapters on Australian film and television, international film and television (particularly Hollywood), cultural and media policy, and new media and old media.

Co-author of reports:

• Cinema Cities/Media Cities: the Contemporary International Studio Complex (2003, with B. Goldsmith).
• The Future for Local Content: Options for Emerging Technologies (2001, with B. Goldsmith, J. Thomas and S. Cunningham).

Co-Editor of:

• Mobilising the Audience (2002, with M. Balnaves and J. Sternberg).
• An Australian Film Reader (1985), with A. Moran.
• The Australian Screen (1989), with A. Moran.
• The Moving Image: the History of Film and Television in Western Australia 1896-1985 (1985, with B. Shoesmith).
• History onlandlin Film (1987, with B. Shoesmith).

Journal issue co-editor/editor of:

• 'Creative Networks' (Media International Australia, 2004).
• 'Ratings in Transition' (Media International Australia, 2002).
• 'Culture: Industry, Development, Distribution' (Media International Australia, 2002).
• 'International Issues in Media Regulation' (Media International Australia, 2000).
• 'Policy, Governance and Culture' (Critical Arts, 1998).
• 'Governmentality and its Others' (UTS Review, 1997).
• 'Critical Multiculturalism' (Continuum, 1994).
• 'Screening Cultural Studies' (Continuum, 1994). 
• 'Communication and Tradition: Essays after Eric Michaels' (Continuum, 1990).
• 'Asian Cinema' (Continuum, 1988/89).
• 'Australian Film in the 1950s' (Continuum, 1987).

Research interests include cultural and media policy, international screen and media industries, the relation between new and old media, Australian film and television, cultural organisations, broadcast ratings and audience development.

Current research includes the contemporary international film and television production ecologies with a particular emphasis on their Australian instanceation, new policy models for audiovisual media, ratings audience research and development in the media industries, and contemporary reframings of cultural policy.

Journal Work:

• Media Intemational Australia:  Editorial Board.
• Critical Arts:  Editorial advisor.
• Continuum (1987-1995):  Founding co-editor.

Professor O'Regan was the Head of the School of English, Media Studies and Art Histroy at UQ from 2005-2008, Director of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy (1999-2002, Griffith University) and the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication (1996-1998, Murdoch University).  In 2002 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.  From 2002-2003 he was the Australian UNESCO-Orbicom Professor of Communication.