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. Leonie had a long and productive relationship with the Goethe-Institut, for which she curated public screenings of German films that were otherwise unavailable in Australia. She was a referee for Cinema Journal and Metro and served on the editorial board for Screening the Past.
Book:
That was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification, and the “New” Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Thesis:
“We Were the People”: Film Culture, Comedy and the Unification of Germany. Ph.D. diss., La Trobe University, 1996.
Book chapters:
“Magic, Myth and Mayhem: Retribalisation in Virtual Worlds”. In Electronic Tribes, edited by Tyrone L. Adams. University of Texas Press. (Forthcoming)
“Seduction in Cyberspace”. In In the Mind’s Eye. Critical Readings in Role Playing Games, edited by Henry James Butler. University of Florida Press, 2007. (In press)
“Wiedervereinigung als Siegergeschichte. In Apropro: Film 2000. Das Jahrbuch der DEFA-Stiftung, edited by Ralf Schenk. Berlin: DEFA-Stiftung. 242-253
“Murder and Mayhem: Fritz Lang’s M”. In Traps for the Mind and Eye: The Films of Fritz Lang, edited by Michael Koller and Clare Stewart. Melbourne: The National Cinémathèque/The Goethe Institute, 1998. 17-21.
“Recovering the Unmastered Past”. In History on/and/in Film, edited by Tom O’Regan and Brian Shoesmith. Perth: History & Film Association of Australia, 1987. 121-30.
Articles:
“Desire, Passion and Power: Women in the Festival of German Films”. Goethe Institut Festival of German Films Australia: April 2006. Senses of Cinema 41, Oct-Dec 2006.www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/06/41/festival-german-films-2006.html (1 Nov. 2007).
“Split Screens: The Cultural Politics of German Film”. Screen Education April 2005: 17-23.
Review of Caryl Flinn, The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), Screening the Past, 30 Nov. 2004.www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/reviews/rev_17/LNbr17a.html (1 Nov. 2007).
“Festival of German Film”. Realtime 64 (Mar. 2004).
“German Film Now”. Realtime 57 (Sep. 2003).
“Eine Berliner Romanze.” Rediscovered DEFA Films (teaching guide for USA distribution and sale of DEFA films and videos), Icestorm International and University of Massachusetts, Summer 2000.
“Frank Beyer”. Senses of Cinema 6 (May 2000), www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/00/6/beyer.html (1 Nov. 2007).
“German Unification on Film”. Filmblatt (Berlin-Brandenburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung) 12 (Feb. 2000): 25-29.
“German Film in the 1990s: Seeking American Friends?” Metro 121/122 (Summer 2000): 138-143.
“German Unification and the End of GDR Film History”, Political Expressions 3 (1998): 71-90.
“Leni Riefenstahl: A Wonderful Life in a Horrible World – Die Macht der Bilder”. Metro 106 (1996): 22-27.
“Party Pooper: The Forbidden GDR Films”. Filmnews (Sep. 1993): 11-12.
“Love Stories and Girls’ Blouses: The Last Days at Chez Nous”. Art Link 13: 1 (1993): 66-67.
“Competing for Euro-vision: Marketing Cultural Identity”. Metro 92 (Summer 1992): 34-37.
“Dealing with DEFA: The Euro-Chainsaw Massacre”. Metro 91 (Spring 1992): 34-37.
“Enchantment and Excess: Reviewing Fassbinder”. Essay commissioned by the Australian Film Institute for the AFI./Goethe Institut Fassbinder Retrospective, 1992.
“Germany Pale Mother: Screen Memories of Nazism”. Continuum 5.2 (1992): 141-158.
“German Cinema – Dead Again?” Filmnews 22:7 (Aug. 1992): 8-9.
“Fassbinder Ten Years On.” Filmnews 22.7 (Aug. 1992): 10.
“Wim Wenders: Masculinity In the Course of Time”. Metro 87 (Spring 1991): 22-26.
“A Very German Film Industry”. Filmnews 21.2 (Mar. 1991): 10-11.
Victor Burgin Interviewed. Filmviews 33.136 (Winter 1988): 17-20.
“Men” Cinema Papers 63 (May 1987): 61-62.
“Fassbinder, Filmmaker as Super-Brat.” Cinema Papers 51 (1985). 91.
“Heimat: Backs to the Past”. Filmnews 15.6 (Aug. 1985): 13-14.
“Spring Time for Hitler and Germany” Filmnews 14.6 (May/Jun. 1984): 6-7.
Translation
Schlupmann, Heide, & Karola Gramman. “Mädchen in Uniform”. Trans. Leonie Naughton. Screening the Past 2 (Feb. 1998), www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/reruns/thiele.html (1 Nov. 2007).
Selected conference papers
“Paganism and Tribalisation in the Age of Digital Technology”. Representations of Witchcraft in the Media. Department of Folklore, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. May 2006.
“Magic, Myth and Mayhem: Role Playing in Cyberspace”. Society for Film and Media Conference. Vancouver, Canada. March 2006.
“Im Westen nichts neues: East and West Perspectives on Unification”. International Conference on the Media and History. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany. September 1999.
“After the Wall: Film Culture in the ‘New’ Germany.” Screen Conference. Glasgow University, UK. July 1999.
“Unification on Film”. Ninth History and Film Conference, Brisbane, Australia. November 1998.
“German Film in the 1990s: A Site of Resistance?” Ninth History and Film Conference, Brisbane, Australia. November 1998.
“Abschied von Gestern: Unification on Film”. German Film History Conference, Amherst, University of Massachusetts. October 1997.
“Recovering the ‘Unmastered Past’: Nazism on Film.” Third History and Film Conference, Perth, Australia. December 1986.
Created on: Thursday, 19 December 2007