Author Janice Loreck

Janice Loreck

Dr. Janice Loreck is a Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies at The University of Melbourne. Her background is in gender, women's filmmaking and global art cinema in twenty-first century screen culture. She is the author of the book Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema (2016), co-editor of Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom (2019), and has published in numerous international journals on feminist film theory and international cinema culture. She also works as a film critic for community and commercial radio in Perth and Melbourne.

Memory Film: A Filmmaker’s Diary

Janice Loreck

October 2024

CTEQ Annotations on Film

Memory Film: A Filmmaker’s Diary (2023) is, according to Australian filmmaker Jeni Thornley, her last film. Moments into the film’s opening, an intertitle declares that what follows is a “farewell film poem to ...

Butterflies in a Box: Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Insect Poetics

Janice Loreck

August 2022

The Natural Models of Lucile Hadžihalilović

Lucile Hadžihalilović has declared herself a cinematic entomologist of sorts. Discussing her process in an interview following her breakout film, Innocence (2004), Hadžihalilović suggests that her filmmaking me...