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Professor Belinda Smaill is the Head of the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University, specializing in nonfiction documentary screen culture. With decades of research experience, her recent work has focused on the ethical, cultural, and institutional issues pertaining to environmental biodiversity in screen media. Smaill has authored influential texts such as 'Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture' (2010) and 'Life: Animals Documentary Moving Image' (2016), and co-authored 'Transnational Australian Cinema: Ethics, Asian Diasporas' (2013). She has published widely in international journals including Screen, JCMS, and Camera Obscura. Belinda supervises doctoral and master's students in film studies, television studies, and related disciplines, aligning her research with the UN Sustainable Development Goals aimed at reducing poverty and protecting the planet. Her expertise encompasses a range of topics including environment, documentary media, ecocinema, Australian film, gender, cinema, cultural history, and the aesthetics of documentary film, with an emphasis on human relations in the Anthropocene.
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