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Dr. Mark Ryan, who publishes as Mark David Ryan, is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Film and Television for the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on genre cinema and policy, and he lectures in film studies and genre studies.
Mark is an expert on Australian horror films and genre cinema having written extensively on these issues. Ryan has published on film, creative industries, new media and cultural policy. His research has been published in New Review of Film & Television Studies, Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, and Studies in Australasian Cinema, and by prominent international publishers such as Routledge, Sage and University of Ottawa Press.
His PhD explored the recent boom in Australian horror movies: production and distribution models; and the industrial, market and technological forces driving production. His thesis constituted the first major study of Australian horror cinema, and the first to explore a popular movie genre’s industry dynamics within Australian cinema.
In 2010, he edited the special issue ‘Film, Cinema, Screen’ for Australia’s premiere media and communications journal Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, an A. ERA ranked journal; he was invited to edit ‘Australasian Horror’, a special issue for the journal Studies in Australasian Cinema, and the ‘Horror Movies’ section for the Directory of World Cinema: Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Mark has been a driving force behind fledgling discussion around Australian genre movies and their importance for the commercial development of Australian cinema. In recognition of the excellence of hisresearch, in 2010 Mark won two awards, including CIF’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation, and was nominated for two awards including the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence.
His research interests include Australian film, the horror genre, Australian Gothic, gothic film and literature, popular movie genres (action, science-fiction, thriller, crime, etc), entertainment, digital production/distribution models and cultural policy.
Publications: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Ryan,_Mark.html
Academia.edu Profile: http://qut.academia.edu/MarkDavidRyan
