Emeritus Professor Roger Hillman
Emeritus Fellow, SLLL
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
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Areas of expertise
- Other European Literature 200515
- Musicology And Ethnomusicology 190409
- German Language 200307
- Comparative Literature Studies 200524
- Literature In German 200512
- Translation And Interpretation Studies 200323
- Cinema Studies 190201
- European History (Excl. British, Classical Greek And Roman) 210307
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Visual Cultures 190104
- Literary Studies 2005
- Historical Studies 2103
Biography
Roger Hillman is an Emeritus Fellow in the School of Languages, Literature and Linguistics. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (German Govt. postdoctoral award) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. In 2014 and 2016 he was an Arts and Humanities assessor for the European Research Council.
Researcher's projects
representations of Gallipoli; Turkish-German cinema and recent
German cinema in general; Italian opera and cinema
Publications
- Hillman, R 2020, 'Phantoms of Italian Opera - Cultural Memory in Italian and (West) German Films', in Michael Baumgartner and Ewelina Boczkowska (ed.), Music, Collective Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia in European Cinema after the Second World War, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, United States, pp. 70-85.
- Hillman, R 2020, 'Berna Gueneli, Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe (reviewed by Roger Hillman)', Music, Sound & the Moving Image, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 159-162.
- Hillman, R 2018, 'Book Review: Adventures of a Postmodern Historian: Living and Writing the Past, by Robert Rosenstonem Bloomsbury, 224pp, 2016', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 63, pp. 209-213.
- Hillman, R 2017, 'Book Review: Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema by Mariana Liz, publ Bloomsbury, 2016', EuropeNow: a journal of research and art, vol. online, pp. 8pp..
- Hillman, R 2016, 'Europe's Children across the Borders of Memory', in Simone Gigliotti and Monica Tempian (ed.), The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement, Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, pp. 321-336.
- Hillman, R 2015, 'The Evening of Life, on Film: Amour and Melancholia in the Abendland', Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 8, pp. 221-233.
- Hillman, R 2014, 'Representing Gallipoli on Film - From National to Transnational Myth?', in Mehmet Mehdi Ilhan (ed.), Gallipoli: History, Memory and National Imagination, Turkish Historical Society, Ankara Turkey, pp. 171-182.
- Hillman, R & Crisp, D 2014, 'Chiming the Hours: A Philip Glass Soundtrack', in Adriana Varga (ed.), Virginia Woolf & Music, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, pp. 288-310.
- Hillman, R 2014, 'From No Man's Land to Transnational Spaces: The Representation of Great War Memory in Film', in Shanti Sumartojo and Ben Wellings (ed.), Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration, Peter Lang AG, Bern, Switzerland, pp. 61-77.
- Hillman, R 2014, 'Book review: LAURA HEINS. Nazi Film Melodrama. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2013. Pp. viii, 240.', American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 5, pp. 1808-1809.
- Hillman, R 2013, 'Book Review: David Roberts: The total work of art in European Modernism', Thesis Eleven, vol. 118, no. 1, pp. 133-136.
- Hillman, R 2013, 'Request Concert: Wunschkonzert', in Michelle Langford (ed.), Germany 2: Directory of World Cinema, Intellect Books, Bristol, United Kingdom, pp. 217-219.
- Hillman, R 2013, 'Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog by Eric Ames (review)', Monatshefte: fuer deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 362-363.
- Hillman, R 2013, 'Sounding the Depths of History: Opera and National Identity in Italian Film', in Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu (ed.), A Companion to the Historical Film, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester UK, pp. 328-346.
- Hillman, R 2012, 'Malick's Music of the Spheres: The Tree of Life', Screening the Past, no. 35, pp. online.
- Hillman, R 2012, 'The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)', in Michelle Langford (ed.), Germany: Directory of World Cinema, Intellect Ltd, Chicago USA, pp. 232-233.
- Hillman, R 2012, 'Coming to Our Senses: The Viewer and Herzog's Sonic Worlds', in Brad Prager (ed.), A Companion to Werner Herzog, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, United Kingdom, pp. 168-186.
- Hillman, R & Silvey, V 2012, 'Remixing Hamburg: Transnationalism in Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen', in Sabina Hake and Barbara Mennel (ed.), Turkish German Cinema in the New Millenium, Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 186-197.
- Hillman, R 2011, 'Spoken Word to Written Text: Subtitling', in Kirsten Malmkjaer and Kevin Windle (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 379-393.
- Hillman, R 2011, 'German Studies and Film Studies in Oz', in Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann, Christiane Weller (ed.), Groteske Moderne-Moderne Groteske: Festschrift for Philip Thomson, Rohrig Universitatsverlag, St Ingbert, Germany, pp. 189-204.
- Hillman, R 2011, 'Music as Cultural Marker in Film: Beyond the Frame of National Images', in Genevieve Zarate, Danielle Levy, Claire Kramsch (ed.), Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, Editions des Archives Contemporaines, Paris, pp. 241-244.
- Hillman, R 2011, 'A Transnational Gallipoli?', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 51, pp. 1-11.
- Silvey, V & Hillman, R 2010, 'Akin's Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven) and the widening periphery', German as a Foreign Language, vol. 3, pp. 99-116.
- Crisp, D & Hillman, R 2010, 'Chiming the Hours: a Philip Glass Soundtrack', Music and the Moving Image, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-7.
- Hillman, R 2010, 'Transnationalism in the films of Faith Akin', in Paul Gifford and Tessa Hauswedell (ed.), Europe and its Others: Essays on Interperception and Identity, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Bern, Switzerland, pp. 263-276.
- Hillman, R 2010, 'Wagner as Leitmotif: The New German Cinema and Beyond', in Sander L Gilman and Jeongwon Joe (ed.), Wagner and Cinema, Indiana University Press, Indiana, USA, pp. 253-272.
- Hillman, R 2010, 'Film at the Millennium', Screening the Past, vol. 28, pp. online.
- Hillman, R 2009, 'Book Review: Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema', Screening the Past, vol. 26.
- Hillman, R 2009, 'Introduction to "My place" (Peter Weiss, Meine Ortschaft)', Transit, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-3.
- Hillman, R 2009, 'Film adaptations of Guenther Grass's prose work', in Stuart Taberner (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gunther Grass, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 193-208.
- Hillman, R 2009, 'Translation of "My place" (Peter Weiss, Meine Ortschaft) in "Transit"', vol. 4, no. 1.
- Hillman, R 2008, 'Am Rande der Heine-Rezeption: a) Heine im Film; b) eine Vertonung der Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar (On the edge of Heine reception: a) Heine in film; b) a tone setting of the pilgrimage to Kevlaar', in Dietmar Goltschnigg, Charlotte Grollegg-Edler and Peter Revers (ed.), Harry... Heinrich... Henri... Heine: Deutscher, Jude, Europaer, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, pp. 259-264.
- Hillman, R 2008, 'Trueba's La nina de tus ojos (The Girl of Your Dreams) (1998): the German connection', Studies in European Cinema, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 67-76.
- Hillman, R 2008, 'La Musique Comme Indice Culturel Dans Le Cinema: Au-Dela Des Images Nationales (Music as cultural marker in cinema: beyond the national)', in Genevieve Zarate, Danielle Levy, Claire Kramsch (ed.), Precis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme, Editions des Archives Contemporaines, Paris, France, pp. 249-254.
- Hillman, R 2007, 'Book review: Depth of field: Stanley Kubrick film, and the uses of history', Screening the Past, vol. 21.
- Blumentrath, H, Bodenburg, J, Hillman, R et al 2007, Transkulturalität: Türkisch-deutsche Konstellationen in Literatur and Film, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster, Germany.
- Hillman, R 2006, 'In the Eye of the Story: Film, Music, Narrative', in Louise Maurer and Roger Hillman (ed.), Reading Images, Viewing Texts: Lire les images, voir les textes. Crossdisciplinary Perspectives, Perspectives pluridisciplinaires, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Bern, pp. 145-162.
- Maurer, L & Hillman, R, eds, 2006, Reading Images, Viewing Texts: Lire les images, voir les textes. Crossdisciplinary Perspectives, Perspectives pluridisciplinaires, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Bern.
- Hillman, R 2006, 'Film and Music, or Instabilities of National Identity', in Natascha Gentz and Stefan Kramer (ed.), Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations, State University of New York Press, USA, pp. 143-152.
- Hillman, R 2006, 'Goodbye Lenin (2003): History in the Subjunctive', Rethinking History, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 221-238.
- Hillman, R 2006, 'Lola and Billy the Kid (1999): A Turkish Director's Western Showdown in Berlin', Post Script (Commerce): Essays in Film and the Humanities, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 44-55.
- Hillman, R 2006, 'Entries in Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film', in Ian Aitken (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, Routledge, New York USA.
- Hillman, R 2006, 'Stanley Kubrick', in Justin Wintle (ed.), New Makers of Modern Culture, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, pp. 848-849.
- Hillman, R 2005, Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis USA.
- Summerhayes, C & Hillman, R 2005, 'Carl Vine's Score in beDevil', in Rebecca Coyle (ed.), Reel Tracks; Australian Feature Film Music and Cultural Identities, John Libbey Publishing, Eastleigh, United Kingdom, pp. 218-227.
- Blumentrath, H, Bodenburg, J, Hillman, R et al 2005, 'Antipodean visions of transcultural societies: Ein australisch-deutsches Forschungsprojekt zu Filmen der Gegenwart', KulturPoetik: Journal for Cultural Poetics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 203-224.
- Hillman, R 2004, 'Loosening the Canon in Film Music', National Festival of Women's Music 2001, ed. Linda Kouvaras, Ruth Lee Martin, Graham Hair, Southern Voices, Canberra, Australia, pp. 93-98.
- Hillman, R 2003, 'Cultural memory on film soundtracks', Journal of European Studies, vol. 33, pp. 323-332.
- Hillman, R 2003, 'Book Review: Shifting Memories: The Nazi Past in the New Germany', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 216-219.
- Hillman, R 2003, 'Book Review: The German Cinema Book', Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, vol. 108, pp. 171-172.
- Hillman, R 2002, 'Book Review: Hake, Sabine, German National Cinema', Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, vol. 104, pp. 133-134.
- Hillman, R & Mathieson, T 2002, 'Translation: Image(circum)volution: On the Installation Schnittstelle (Interface) by Christa Blumlinger', Senses of Cinema, vol. July-August 2002, no. 21, pp. online - not available.
- Hillman, R & Mathieson, T 2002, 'Translation: Passage along the Shadow-Line: Farocki and others - approaching a certain Filmkritik-style by Olaf Moller', Senses of Cinema, vol. July-August 2002, no. 21, pp. online - not available.
- Hillman, R & Mathieson, T 2002, 'Translation: The Green of the Grass: Harun Farocki in Filmkritik by Rainer Knepperges', Senses of Cinema, vol. July-August 2002, no. 21, pp. online - not available.
- Hillman, R 2002, 'Translation: Painting Pavements by Volker Siebel', Senses of Cinema, vol. July-August 2002, no. 21, pp. online - not available.
- Hillman, R 2002, 'The Penumbra of Neorealism', Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. xxxviii, no. 2, pp. 221-233.
- Crisp, D & Hillman, R 2002, 'Verdi in Postwar Italian Cinema', in Jeongwon Joe and Rose Theresa (ed.), Between Opera and Cinema, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London, pp. 155-176.
- Hillman, R 2002, 'Annotations: Closely Observed Trains', Senses of Cinema, vol. November-December, no. 23, pp. online - not available.
- Hillman, R 2001, 'Fassbinder, and Fassbinder/Peer Raben', Screening the Past, vol. 12.
- Crisp, D & Hillman, R 2001, 'Verdi and Schoenberg in Bertoluccis the Spiders Stratagem', Music and Letters, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 251-267.
- Hillman, R 2000, 'The Original Ludwig van (and Others): Classical Music as a Cultural Marker', in unknown (ed.), Cinesonic Cinema and the Sound of Music, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, New South Wales, pp. 131-152.
- Maurer, L, Carroli, P & Hillman, R 2000, 'Teaching Literature across Cultures and across Art Forms', in Crozet, C. and Liddicoat, A. (ed.), Teaching languages, Teaching Cultures, Language Australia, Melbourne, pp. 89-103.
- Hillman, R 1999, 'European Comparative Literature in an Australian Languages Department', Arcadia: Zeitschrift Fur Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literatur Wissenschaft, vol. 34/2, pp. 308-312.
- Hillman, R 1999, 'A Hungarian Woyzeck', Slavic and East European Performance, no. 19/2, pp. 89-93.
- Carroli, P, Hillman, R & Maurer, L 1999, 'Australian Perspectives on (Inter)national European Narratives', in Lo Biano, J. (ed.), Striving for the Third Place: Intercultural Competence through Language Education, Language Australia, Melbourne, pp. 155-165.
