Doctor Adam Daniel
Associate Lecturer in Communications,
Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
Associate Lecturer in Communications,
Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
Biography
Dr Adam Daniel is a filmmaker and Associate Lecturer in Communications at Western Sydney University. His research interests include the evolution of horror film, new media technologies, screenwriting, independent filmmaking and the works of David Lynch. He has published on film, television and popular culture, and is the author of "Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms: From Found Footage to Virtual Reality" by Edinburgh University Press.
Adam completed his Masters in Screenwriting at Australian Film Television and Radio School in 2020. His graduate TV pilot The Replicas was shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Writers’ Guild John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science Fiction Writing and was selected as an AACTA: Pitch Finalist and AWG Monte Miller Award Finalist, and his sci-fi pilot Omega was a Quarterfinalist in the Final Draft Big Break Competition and was also a finalist for the John Hinde Award in 2022. His graduate short film The Replica screened at Monsterfest and Sydney Sci-Fi Film Festival in 2021. He also produced and script edited the short film Mud Crab, which premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival in 2022, and was selected for Raindance, Aesthetica Film Festival, Flickerfest, St Kilda Film Festival, Dances With Films, Cinefest OZ and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Mud Crab was also nominated for Best Short Film at the 2023 AACTA Awards.
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Qualifications
- PhD Western Sydney University
Interests
- Cinema Studies
- Screen Media Arts
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
- Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
Contact
| Email: | A.Daniel@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | n/a |
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| Location: | n/a ParramattaParramatta |
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Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- COMM3006 Cinema and Experience, 2023
- COMM3022 Media Memory, 2023
Publications
Books
- Daniel, A. (2020), 'Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms: From Found Footage to Virtual Reality', : Edinburgh University Press 9781474456357.
Chapters in Books
- Daniel, A. (2021), 'Tom Cruise as father and son', Starring Tom Cruise, Wayne State University Press 9780814347171.
- Daniel, A. (2020), 'Here and there : Malick's cinema and McGilchrist's 'divided brain'', A Critical Companion to Terrence Malick, Lexington Books 9781793608628.
- Daniel, A. (2020), 'Ghosts of future past : spatial and temporal intersections', The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation, McFarland & Company 9781476678658.
- Daniel, A. (2019), 'Kafka's crime film : Twin Peaks: The Return and the brotherhood of Lynch and Kafka', Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return, Palgrave Macmillan 9783030047979.
- Daniel, A. (2019), 'Fear and wonder : the lived-body experience of Spielberg's cinema', A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg, Lexington Books 9781498593595.
Journal Articles
- Daniel, A. (2019), 'Under the skin of the world : the multiversal spaces of Twin Peaks : The Return', Supernatural Studies, vol 5, no 2 , pp 49 - 72.
- Daniel, A. (2018), 'Inhabiting the image of Collisions : virtual reality cinema as a medium of ethical experience', Fusion, vol 14 , pp 6 - 15.
- Daniel, A. (2016), ''Always watching' : the interface of horror and digital cinema in Marble Hornets', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, vol 10, no 1 .