Bruce Fell
Lecturer
Course Coordinator
MA (Hons) Wgong, BA MitchellCAE (With Distinction)
Bruce Fell
Bio
Bruce is the School's lecturer in Video and Documentary production. He teaches internal and distances education subjects. Bruce has experience as a producer, director, editor and scriptwriter in Film, Television and Video.
Bruce’s MA (Hons) compared the documentary style employed in a series of HIV/AIDS awareness programs that he produced, with the evolution of documentary screen-based communication production, from Lumière’s ‘actualities’ through to contemporary documentary practice.
Research
- Bruce's research interests are directed towards questions concerning media, culture and society, such as: How the screen mediates our understanding of self; Ethics and commercial communication practice; Television, social justice and the World problematique; Television production and practice. History of Documentary
- Contemporary documentary and information production
- He is currently undertaking PhD research into the relationship between commercial television, climate change and 'awareness leading to action'.
Projects
Bruce is undertaking a PhD (part-time)
For the past fifteen years Bruce has facilitated a wide range of community video projects throughout the Central West. These have included:
- Literacy programs for community centres;
- Flood mitigation information programs;
- Tourism campaigns;
- Rural segments for SBS;
- Video programs for local schools and community groups across the Central West;
- Presentations at media workshops across the Central West;
- Regularly, on an ongoing basis, advise community groups and organizations on issues relating to screen-based awareness;
- Producer for a national television advertisement for the ‘Reclaim The Night’.
Recent publications and Conference papers
Fell, B., (2005). The question concerning the world Problematique and Commercial Television Scholarship and Community Conference, University of Western Sydney , Sydney . (Publication pending)
Fell, B., (2005). Creative activism in viewer land: Switching to place, environment, reconciliation and community. Two Fires Conference, Braidwood, NSW. (Publication Pending). Conference paper:
Fell, B., (2004). Walking the wallaby. Sense of Place (5) Colloquium
Far South, Tasmania . (Non-refereed conference paper)
Fell, B., (2003). Commercial TV news and environmental sustainability.
Journalism Education Association Annual Conference, Sydney . (Non refereed conference paper):
Fell, B., (2003) Global warming, it doesn't rate. Creating Spaces Conference, Australian National University , Canberra . (Non refereed conference paper)
Fell, B., (2000). Televisual information and ecological reality. A Social Ecology Journal (2).
Fell, B., (2000) Television: in the grip of a big idea that is no longer true.
Television: Past, Present and Futures Conference, University of Queensland , Brisbane . (Refereed conference paper:
Fell, B (2000). Broadcasting a big idea that is no longer true. Southern Region Postgraduate Seminar, Charles Sturt University , Wagga Wagga. (Non-refereed conference paper)
