Chris Healy Chris Healy i(A35644 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon Reading the Country : 30 Years On Philip Morrissey (editor), Chris Healy (editor), Broadway : UTS Press , 2019 14554808 2019 anthology criticism

'Steeped in story-telling and endlessly curious, Reading the Country: An Introduction to Nomadology (1984) was the product of Paddy Roe, Stephen Muecke and Krim Benterrak, experimenting with what it might be like to think together about country. In the process a senior traditional owner, a cultural theorist and a painter produced a text unlike any other. Reading the Country: 30 Years On is a celebration of one of the great twentieth-century books of intercultural dialogue. Recalling a spirit of intellectual risk and respect, in this collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, poets, writers and publishers both acknowledge the past and look, with hope, to future transformations of culture and country.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Meaghan Morris : Cultural Historian Chris Healy , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , March vol. 24 no. 1 2018; (p. 50-57)

'Meaghan Morris was celebrated at the Meaghan Morris Festival as a mentor, a cultural theorist, a much-loved colleague, a lecturer, a polemicist and a stirrer, a teacher, an internationalist, a translator and much else besides. Here, I want to add to that chorus by making a very specific case: that Meaghan Morris is the most significant and innovative living Australian cultural historian. This characterisation is, in part, rooted in my own investments in work at the intersections of cultural studies and cultural history but it is of much greater significance. An influential contemporary characterisation of cultural studies is that it was a boomer reaction to existing disciplinary constraints, a manifestation of anti-canonical impulses that choose instead to celebrate marginality while at the same time making an innovative case for the ways in which culture matters. It follows that if, today, academic disciplines in the social sciences and humanities have become highly flexible (rather than canonical) and maintained their institutional hegemony while simultaneously becoming irrelevant to much knowledge-work and that, today, margins and mainstreams seem like next-to-useless terms to describe cultural topographies or flows and that, today, culture matters nowhere so much as the rapacious industries of media cultures, then perhaps the moment of cultural studies seems of historical interest only. (Introduction)

1 Meaghan Chris Healy , Katrina Schlunke , Prudence Black , Stephen Muecke , Catherine Driscoll , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , March vol. 24 no. 1 2018; (p. 1-4)

'It had to be ‘Meaghan’. The title of this edition of Cultural Studies Review is our salute to the work of Meaghan Morris and her lasting influence. That legacy is directly addressed in the collection of written works that emerged from the Meaghan Morris Festival held in 2016 but it is also echoed in the essays and reviews that are gathered within, that in their very mix speak to the particular tradition of cultural studies, Australian and otherwise, that Meaghan Morris helped so much to create.'  (Introduction)

1 Reprise Chris Healy , Katrina Schlunke , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , vol. 23 no. 2 2017; (p. 1-2)

'In this issue of Cultural Studies Review, Sean Sturm considers Ruth Barcan’s book, Academic Life and Labour in the New University: Hope and Other Choices, in which she describes the contemporary university as a ‘a palimpsest: a scholarly community, a bureaucracy and a transnational corporation’. It would seem that academic journals might be similarly palimpsestic. Publications in refereed journals offer an opportunity to share original scholarly research, to review and debate research published elsewhere, and (in this journal at least) occasions for intellectual creativity and exploration. At the same time, articles in refereed journals are subject to relentless systems of quantification which both measure individual productivity and are fed into metrics of aggregation which, in turn, are harvested to produce rankings which are then key marketing messages for the promotion of particular corporate entities. And, more often than not, the journals we read and publish in are themselves products of transnational corporations. Although not this journal.' (Introduction)

1 ‘A Dog, If You Point at Something, Will Only Look at Your Finger’: Travelling Television Chris Healy , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 28 no. 5 2014; (p. 583-593)
'This paper introduces, and considers how best to write about, a genre of Australian television programming that I call ‘travelling television’, a genre that stretches from (before) the Leyland Brothers to Steve Irwin, and from Australian Walkabout (1958) to Bush Tucker Man (1988–1990) and beyond. The long history of this genre makes it a useful form through which to ask some very basic questions about broadcast television. I do that here by taking up some suggestions about the changing nature of television by the novelist and essayist, David Foster Wallace, focusing in particular on questions of representation, referentiality and ontology that, in the end, may offer a useful contribution to television scholarship from offshore...'
1 Ask the Leyland Brothers : Instructional TV, Travel and Popular Memory Chris Healy , Alison Huber , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 24 no. 3 2010; (p. 389 - 398)
'This article considers television made by two Australian brothers, Mike and Mal Leyland, specifically their long-running series from the 1970s, Ask the Leyland Brothers. The program used viewer participation to set an itinerary for the brothers, who travelled extensively by car to film responses to viewers' questions about Australia. Mike and Mal Leyland brought images of the Australian countryside to very large television audiences, providing entertainment and instructions about how to travel, appreciate and consume the country they and their audience lived in. While this example of 'instructional TV' was extremely popular in its 10-year run on television, and is fondly remembered by audiences, it is not prominent in the 'official' discourse of Australia's TV history; thus, it poses a particular set of questions about television and cultural memory.' (Author's abstrat)
1 Religious Conversion and the Historical Moment Chris Healy , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 47 2009;

— Review of The Lamb Enters the Dreaming : Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World Robert Kenny , 2007 single work biography
1 4 y separately published work icon Forgetting Aborigines Chris Healy , Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2008 Z1679541 2008 single work criticism

'Forgetting Aborigines explores a central paradox in Australian History: Aborigines are often remembered as absent in the face of a continuing actual Indigenous historical presence. Chris Healy argues that in the ways we remember our history, Aborigines keep disappearing...Aboriginal issues can be on the front page for weeks prompting white Australians to ask the questions like 'why weren't we told?' and then recede again. The book examines the way in which we can stop this dishonest and destructive silence.

Healy explores the entanglements that emerge from various encounters between white and Indigenous people since the 1960s. The book draws on the extraordinary cultural production emerging from the domain of Aboriginality in painting, photography, exhibition, performance, poetry, fiction and much more... Forgetting Aborigines makes personal, reflective and intellectual observations about the ways in which we remember and forget and how we might make Aboriginality meaningful and visible in Australia'. Source: Publisher's blurb

1 Encounter Historian Carter Chris Healy , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 66 no. 2 2006; (p. 199-209)
1 7 y separately published work icon Cultural Studies Review John Frow (editor), Katrina Schlunke (editor), Chris Healy (editor), Stephen Muecke (editor), 2002 Sydney : UTS Press , 2007-2019 Z987576 2002 periodical (29 issues)
1 'Race Portraits' and Vernacular Possibilities : Heritage and Culture Chris Healy , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Culture in Australia : Policies, Publics and Programs 2001;
1 1 Moving Around Chris Healy (interviewer), 1999 single work interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 58 no. 3 1999; (p. 174-191)
1 The Music of Travel Chris Healy , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 191 1997; (p. 33-34)

— Review of No Road : (Bitumen all the Way) Stephen Muecke , 1997 selected work prose extract
1 y separately published work icon UTS Review UTS Review : Cultural Studies and New Writing Chris Healy (editor), Stephen Muecke (editor), Meaghan Morris (editor), Stephen Muecke (editor), 1995 Broadway : University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. , 1995-2001 Z941298 1995 periodical (4 issues) Provides a forum for the critical discussion of academic and creative writing on cultural studies, with a regionalist perspective.
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