SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, FILM, THEATRE, and MEDIA STUDIES

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Dr Thierry Jutel

Senior Lecturer,
School of English Film Theatre and Media Studies

Phone: 04 463 9737
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Street Address: Room 211, 42 44 Kelburn Parade
Nearest Fax: 04 463 5091

Dr Thierry Jutel

Qualifications

BA Université de Nantes
 MA Virginia
 PhD Maryland

Current Research Projects

Thierry Jutel is currently writing a book entitled Understanding Contemporary Cinema for Sage publications.

He is also involved as producer in the post-production of Exogenesis a short digital film with James Robinson and Rowan Wernham, funded with a grant from the Screen Innovation Production Fund. This film is the result of the collaboration with James Robinson, 2007 Wallis Arts award winner and 2007 McCahon artist in residence and Rowan Wernham, director and animator.

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Research and Supervisory Interests

Thierry Jutel is interested in supervising research at MA and PhD levels in the areas of media and cultural industries specifically in the contexts of NZ, American and French societies and from a critical theory perspective.

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Selection of Publications

  • Buettner, Angi, Thierry Jutel, Tony Schirato and Geoff Stahl (forthcoming 2010). Understanding Media Studies. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
  • Jutel, Thierry (2008) 'The Cinema of Peter Jackson' in Margolis, Harriet, Sean Cubitt, Barry King and Thierry Jutel, eds (2008).
  • Studying the Film-Event: The Lord of the Rings. Manchester University Press. pp 100–107.
  • Jutel Thierry and Tony Schirato 'Media Interactivity and Fantasy Sport'. New Zealand Journal of Media Studies 11:1 (June 2008): 32–46. http://www.nzmediastudies.org.nz/
  • Jutel, Thierry “Societies of Control, Compulsory Ecstasy and the Neo-Liberal Subject”. Junctures 8 (June 2007): 27–38. http://www.junctures.org/
  • Jutel, Thierry (2004) "The Lord of the Rings: Landscape, Transformation and the Geography of the Virtual." Cultural Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Edited by Claudia Bell and Steve Matthewman. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. pp 54–65.

Creative Work

Jutel, Thierry (2007) Producer and co-writer Why I Ate Myself. Digital film directed by Kelly Pendergrast Funded by the Screen Innovation Production Fund.

  • Selected in competition for Selected for Independent Exposure Festival USA 2007, screened in San Francisco, Seattle and Fairbanks. The festival organiser communicated to me that this is one of 50 films selected from a pool of submission of close to 1000 films.
  • Selected for Short Fuse programme, Moving Image Centre, Auckland, April 2007.
  • Selected "Animation: From the Avant-Garde to Popular Culture" which was held in conjunction with the San Diego Museum of Art's "Animated Painting" exhibition. The film was screened was screened at the Museum of Photographic Arts, Saturday November 3.
  • CITIZEN FEST, a San Diego film festival event. Screening at The Whistle Stop, Thursday Jan 24 2008.
  • Underground Cinema Lounge, January 29 2008 in San Diego as part of an experimental programme of films.