Belinda Smaill

Professor, Film and Screen Studies, Faculty of Arts Belinda.Smaill@monash.edu

Biography

Belinda is an internationally recognised expert on the history and culture of documentary film. Her research rethinks the social project of documentary film and media by developing innovative multidisciplinary approaches to the genre, allowing her to challenge understandings of documentary histories and traditions.

articles

Archival photo of the Snowy Hydro tunnel with a worker standing in fron of it.

Reframing the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme

Workers tunnelling through mountains and redirecting rivers, powering and irrigating the nation ... We think of the Snowy scheme as a successful nation-building project, but it wasn’t always that way.

Politics and society

Fanning the flames of gas consumption, and critics

Hit cooking show MasterChef’s gas sponsorship deal has sparked accusations of greenwashing, and adds to a long tradition of normalising domestic gas consumption.

Politics and society