Mr Robert Watson
Postgraduate
Contact Details
| Contact Campus |
Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building |
Humanities Building |
| Room Reference |
360 |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6226 7848 |
| Fax |
+61 3 6226 7847 |
| Email |
rswatson@postoffice.utas.edu.au |
Qualifications
MA Research (QUT), BA (UTas),BA (Griffith U), Grad. Dip. Media (U Canberra), Cert. Mandarin (NTNU), Cert. Mandarin (ZhongShan PRC)
Research Interests
Current PhD topic:
Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty: Ethics
Current Supervisors:
Jeff Mapas and David Coady
Research
- Richard Rorty, Innovation Strategies and Movie Inspiration;
- Notation (Film Logic, US Copyright Office);
- Action-Dialogue Cinema Analysis, Market Analysis (Global Commercial Research 140 million AUD);
- Real Time Creative Business Database Designs and Operations;
- Emerging Australian-Asian Fine Arts Nexuses (Curriculum Corporation);
- Japan and Indonesia: Photo Essays;
- East-West Water-Impasto Australian Zen Landscape Painting;
- China and Taiwan: A Postwar Macro Economic Analysis (Griffith University);
- Taiwan and China: Photo Essays;
- Early Learning Second Language Games (East Asia);
- Nine-Workstation Early Learning
Tertiary Teaching and Seminars
- Movie Screenwriting (2x13 weeks Lectures and Workshops, Visiting Lecturer, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology;
- Screenwriting (3x 10 weeks Lectures and Workshops, Lecturer, Queensland TAFE, Yeronga);
- Eyes and Ears (Speculation and Innovation Conference - voted equal best seminar);
- Notation (Australian Teachers of Media ATOM Conference);
- Motion Picture Distribution (SPAA Screen Producers Association Conference);
- Motion Picture Distribution (Invited Interstate Speaker, Film Victoria Public Seminar);
- Screenwriting Commercialization (AFTRS Australian Film TV and Radio School)
Books
- Creative Nation: Australian Cinema (2009) Chapter 3 "Dynamic Communities" (Editors, Sarwal & Sarwal);
- Visions (Curriculum Corporation, Australian Government);
- Movie Writer (1st Edition, Macmillan);
- Writing Movies (2nd Edition Hardback, Macmillan);
- Mandarin (Yale University based Language Course, CGS Canberra)
Films
Student Dancers (2009 Music dance video); The Director (2006 Short); The President's Daughter (2006 Movie 84 minutes); Small World (1992 TV series 16 x 8 minutes); Kewen & Blue (1992 Movie 110 minutes)
Fine Art
National Gallery of Victoria; Manuka Gallery Canberra; East and West Art Melbourne; US, UK, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese Collections.
Internet
heyplay.com; townidea.com; aaqus.com
