2003/2004 Summer Scholarships Program

Catherine Geenty

Title
"... Her skin was darker, her lips thicker than I had thought." - An examination of blackness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.
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Margaret Hanlon

Summary
Australian foreign policy has undergone considerable change over the last century that has resulted in a new foreign policy focus. Up until the Second World War Australia’s foreign policy rarely deviated from that of Great Britain. Our identity as a nation was first and foremost seen in terms of the British Empire and we sought to serve the international desires of the British Empire. If any deviation from the imperial policy took place this was generated from a feeling of vulnerability and security, particularly in relation to Japan. Dalrymple argues that the basis of Australia’s foreign policy up until the end of the Second World War can be understood by the notion of vulnerability.
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Katelin McInerney

Title
Adapting Wendt-Examining the transition of “Sons for the Return Home” from novel to film.
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Jayne Persian

Summary
One of the main benefits of the ISCCI summer scholarship for me has been regular consultation with my supervisor, Associate Professor John McQuilton. He has encouraged me to air my ideas and has helped me to refine them, in a very supportive environment. Attending the ISCCI summer scholarship presentation also led me into casual conversation with Associate Professor Greg Melleuish, who happened to have a copy of the only journal article in existence relating to the banning of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Second World War.
Whilst conducting research on Jehovah’s Witnesses, I made contact with Mr Randall Watters, a prominent ex-Witness who is now head of an ex-Witness web-site www.freeminds.org. This website has old Witness publications for sale, including relevant material from the 1930s and 1940s. Mr Watters also introduced me via email to Dr Jerry Bergman of Northwest State College, Ohio, who has written a bibliography of material concerning Jehovah’s Witnesses and has promised to send me anything he has that might be helpful. These contacts are valuable because they provide access to literature not available directly from Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Anna Reddacliffe

Abstract
The purpose of this project was to review existing literature on cinema spectatorship, audience-star relations, consumer culture and oral history. It is being used as preliminary research for an Honours thesis looking at how young women in the 1940s and 50s responded to Hollywood images of female movie stars, femininity and consumerism. The second part of the project contains a report and summarised transcripts of five interviews conducted by undergraduate students in 2002 for the Faculty of Arts’ Memories of Cinema project. The report aims to provide information on good interviewing practices as well as to link the interviewee’s responses with previous questions about the relationship between young women, fashion and Hollywood film stars.
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Kerry Ross

Tentative Title
The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator and the Licencing of Australia's First Genetically Modified Food Crop: A case study in public (non) participation.
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