Dr Laleen Jayamanne

		BA University of Ceylon MA New York University PhD University of NSW
		Phone	9351 4084
		FAX	9351 4212
		Location	Rm 308 R.C. Mills map

Recipient of ARC Discovery grant 2005-2007 inclusive for research project 'Cinema and the Senses:Temporality of the Films of Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick and Kumar Shahani.'

• Cross-cultural film criticism
• Feminist film theory
• Cinema of Kumar Shahani
• Deleuzean film theory

• [Books]: Towards Cinema and its Double: Cross-cultural Mimesis, 2001 Indiana University Press, US.
• [Edited Books]: The Filmmaker and the Prostitute: Dennis O'Rourke's The Good Woman of Bangkok, co-editor, 1997 Power Publications, Sydney.
• [Edited Books]: Kiss Me Deadly:Feminism and Cinema for the Moment, Sydney, 1995 Power Publications, Sydney.
• [Chapters in Books]: "Let's Miscegenate:Jackie Chan and his African American Connection", in Hong Kong Connections:Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema,,eds. Meaghan Morris, Li-siu-leung, Steohen Chan. Hong Kong University Press (In Press).
• [Chapters in Books]: "Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks" – DO THE RIGHT THING – "A Spike Lee joint": Blocking and Unblocking the Block, ed. Patricia Pisters,Micropolitics of Media Culture: Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari, 2001 Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.
• [Chapters in Books]: A Slapstick Time: mimetic convulsion, convulsive knowing," eds. Lesley Stern and George Kouvaros, Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, 1999 Power Publications, Sydney.
• [Chapters in Books]: "Stories within Stories" in Foreign Dialogues: Memories, Translations, Conversations,ed. Mary Zournazi,Pluto Press, 1998
• [Chapters in Books]: Life is a dream, Raul Ruiz was a Surrealist in Sydney: a capillary memory of a cultural event, ed. L. Jayamanne, Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism and Cinema for the Moment, 1995 Power Publications, Sydney.
• [Chapters in Books]: Speaking of "Ceylon", a clash of cultures", eds. Jim Pines and Paul Willemen, Questions of Third Cinema, 1989 BFI, London.
• [Refereed Journal Articles]: "Pursuing Micromovements in Room 202", SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Chicago University, Special Issue on Recent Approaches to Film Feminisms, 30/1, Autumn 2004
• [Refereed Journal Articles]:"Post ethnicity": Hung up on the telephone, not on ethnicity, notes on three short films by Pauline Chan 1995 Communal Plural no. 4.
• [Refereed Journal Articles]:Unthinking multiculturalism, a review of Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, 1995 Routledge, in UTS Review 1/2.
• [Refereed journal Articles]: Passionate Anachronist a review of The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini, by Sam Rohdie, 1995 BFI and Indiana University Press, in UTS Review 2/2.
• [Catalogue Essays]:Above and Beyond One's Cultural Heritage: Jackie Chan and his Drunken Master, 1996 Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
• [On-line Journal]: "The Ornamentation of Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Mita Vashisht" Senses of Cinema, 23, Nov-Dec, 2002, Special Issue on Women and Film.
• [Refereed conference paper]: "Let's Miscegenate:Jackie Chan and his African American Connection", at the Symposium on "Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema". Lingnan University, Hong Kong January 2003.
• Films: A Song of Ceylon(1985), 16mm and Super8
• Films: Rehearsing (1987).
• Films: Row, Row, Row Your Boat(1991), video.
• Films: LAMA,(1995), video.

• ARHT2653 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Cinem