Dr Steven Maras
BA Curtin '87, Honours Murdoch '88, PhD Murdoch '94

Senior Lecturer
Media and Communications
University of Sydney
NSW 2006 , Australia.

Steven Maras is a trans-disciplinary scholar with interests in communication studies, screen studies, media production, philosophy and social analysis. He has published in numerous journals in Australia and internationally.

List of publications

Books

Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice. London: Wallflower Press, 2009.

Reviews:
Real Time
http://www.realtimearts.net/article/91/9467
Journal of Screenwriting
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/File:download,id=698/JOSC.203.pdf

E-works

"On Transmission"
An essay unpacking this key image of communication in the context of work by Wilbur Schramm, Stuart Hall, and Regis Debray.

"Communicating Criticality"
This essay tries to develop a concept of criticality useful for understanding different kinds of critical practice.

"Some Theses on Critical Communications Practice"
A paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand. July 4-7, 2005.

"Reflections on Adobe Corporation, Bill Viola, and Peter Ramus while Printing Lecture Notes"
Published in the 'Print' edition of the on-line journal M/C this article looks at the impact of the work of Petrus Ramus on pedagogy and ways of thinking about knowledge.

"The Photoplay as Emergent Media Form"
This article suggests that the photoplay has been a neglected object in thinking about emergent media, and discusses the work of two premier theorists of the photoplay, Victor O. Freeburg and Vachel Lindsay.

"An ANZCA Dossier"
An information resource on the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association

"The Medium as Platform: An Emerging Sense of Medium"
A piece that looks at the notion of the platform as an emerging order of media, published in nmediac: The Journal of New Media and Culture, vol. 1, no. 2 (Summer 2002).

"One or Many Media?"
An article published in M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture vol. 3, no. 6 (2000).

Proxy
A short video work from 2000.

"Audio-visualising Derrida"
A review-article of Jacques Derrida's visit to the Sydney Town Hall published in the Australian Humanities Review (July-September 1999).