Education and Training
BA (Hons), University of Otago, New Zealand
MA (Distinction) University of Otago, New Zealand
PhD, La Trobe University, Australia
Research Interests Peter Limbrick’s research focuses on the ways in which imperial histories have configured national cinemas and their gendered and racialized representations of history. He is particularly interested in the films of the British empire and its former “settler colonies” (especially Australia, New Zealand, and the US) and his work explores the way in which their cinematic modes of production and representation construct transnational colonial forms of identity that are articulated around the politics of colonial space.
A related area of interest is in the relationship between discourses of globalization and sexuality, especially the ways in which queer or non-normative representations of gender and sexuality in transnational and global cinema and media are translated within Anglo-American discourses of identity politics.
Selected Publications "The Flotsam and Jetsam of Film History: Hei Tiki and Postcolonial Translations." Forthcoming, journal of visual culture, 2007.
"The Australian Western, or, a Settler Colonial Cinema par excellence." Forthcoming, Cinema Journal 46.4 (2007)
"The stallion that became a gelding that became a mayor: Georgie Girl." Forthcoming, Camera Obscura 67 (April 2008)
Rev. of Westerns: Films Through History, ed. Janet Walker. Film Quarterly 56.3 (2003).
"(De)Colonising the Casbah: Masculinity and the Colonialist Imaginary in Pépé le Moko." New Literatures Review 30 (1995): 17-29.
Teaching Interests
International cinemas; intersections of postcolonial, queer, and transnational theories; theories of landscape and space.
