Category Archive for: ‘Issue 22 – In Memoriam’

When my friend Anne-Marie Duguet came to Sydney about five months ago to take up her appointment as a Visiting Research Professor at the iCinema Centre at the College of the Fine Arts, Carol and I picked her up for to show her some of the sights in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. We ended up at Doyles Hotel, Watson’s …

Screen Hub Friday 21 September, 2007 Screen Hub wishes to remember Leonie Naughton, who taught many members of the screen community, and made an important contribution to the intellectual environment for cinema in Australia. Bill Routt remembers her. Leonie Naughton died in Melbourne on Sunday, September 9. She was 52. Leonie was a member of the first “generation” of film academics …

They say first impressions are important. I vividly remember the first time I saw Leonie. Thin, elegant and dressed entirely in black, with a shock of cropped, blond hair and a mouth defined by outrageously outré lipstick – she made a memorable impact as she entered the lecture theatre. Leonie’s approach to teaching film matched her singular style. She offered …

Address by David Hanan, Monash University, at the Celebration of the Life of Dr Leonie Naughton, Le Pine Chapel, St Kilda, Friday 14 September 2007 I can’t compete with what has gone before, but I will speak about Leonie’s qualities as an academic teacher and colleague. Leonie really shone at Monash. Leonie, as we have heard earlier, had a multi-dimensioned, unique and …

Leonie Naughton was my Honours supervisor, PhD principal supervisor and mentor in my sessional teaching work at Monash University during the 1990s. Leonie Naughton took over teaching German Cinema when she arrived at Monash in 1990, and had also been appointed to teach courses about popular film. She quickly achieved prominence in the Department of Visual Arts for her ability …

My introduction to Leonie Naughton involved a high degree of confusion and mistaken identity. In my first week at La Trobe University in 1988, wide-eyed, curious and quietly confident about studying film because I had invested many hours ‘researching’ classical Hollywood film with Bill Collins on channel 10 at midday, I had signed up to a class led by Leonie, …

Compiled by Lesley Speed with William D. Routt and David Hanan Leonie Naughton’s research about German film and contemporary screen culture has received international acknowledgement. Her work has been published in Australia, Europe and the United States, in English and German. She presented papers at international conferences, often by invitation, and at public seminars and forums for Australian film festivals. …