Dr. Alexia Kannas
Details
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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alexia.kannas@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-6611-5279
About
Dr Alexia Kannas is the author of two monographs, Deep Red (Columbia UP/Wallflower, 2017) and Giallo: Genre, Modernity and Detection in the Italian Horror Film (SUNY Press, 2020), and has published scholarly journal articles and book chapters on topics including the Italian giallo film; film performance; the cinematic representation of Melbourne's post-punk scene; and film studies pedagogy. She has an internationally recognised research profile in the areas of cult cinema and European genre cinema.
Alexia been invited guest scholar at European film festivals including Offscreen (Brussels) and Kurja Polt (Ljubljana), and in 2019 was Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). She sits on the editorial board of Liverpool Univeristy Press' Hidden Horror Histories series and is an external member of Northumbria University's Horror Studies Research Group. Alexia also sits on the advisory panel for the Australian Screen Research Collection.
Alexia is passionate about facilitating public engagement with film history. Since 2023 she has curated the 'Best Films You've Never Seen' public screening series at The Capitol, in partnership with RMIT Culture. Follow @rmitculture on instagram for details of upcoming screenings.
Research fields
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 4701 Communication and media studies
- 4703 Language studies
Supervisor projects
- Writing (with) the girl: genre, self-writing, and extended girlhood
- 19 Jul 2023
- Post-Cinematic Remediation: Translations and Imbrications in 21st-Century Media
- 19 Jun 2023
- Emotional Information
- 4 Apr 2023
- Essaying the Asylum: Explorations of Ethics and Voice in First-person Documentary Practice
- 9 Mar 2023
- A Cross To 'Bare': An Investigation into Nunsploitation Cinema
- 3 Mar 2022
- Devising an Empathetic Framework: identifying antecedents and implications in female-authored true crime
- 5 Feb 2020
- Performing the Self: Parafictional Persona and the Comedian Comedy
- 10 Dec 2019
- Motherhood, the Maternal and Childlessness in the Contemporary Western
- 16 Apr 2019
- Fact, Fiction and Folk Horror: A Cross-Genre Experiment in Music Biopic Screenwriting
- 13 Dec 2018
- My Unhallowed Arts: Hybridising and Remixing the Creation Scene from Frankenstein to Stitch Together New Screenwriting Methods
- 19 Oct 2018
- Spectral Thresholds and Monstrous Pedagogies: Characterising and Remembering Millennial Children's Horror Television in Australia
- 1 Feb 2018
Teaching interests
I am interested in supervising traditional and creative practice postgraduate projects related to:
- cult and genre cinemas
- cinematic representation of place
- screen performance
- film history and historiography
Please see the list below for examples of projects I have supervised to completion.
Research interests
My research is interested in affective encounters with cinema, especially with regards to screen performance and the cinematic representation of place. I am also interested research on public and educational engagement with film and film history.
My current projects include:
- a monograph on place, performance and haunting in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevardˆ (1950), due for publication with SUNY Press in 2025.
- a collaborative project with Dr Stayci Taylor investigating how educators across the globe facilitate student engagement with "boring" or difficult films (funded by ACMI)
