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Thursday, 26 February 2026

David Ryan

David Ryan

Mark David Ryan is a Professor in screen and media industries and a Chief Investigator for the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). Ryan is the leading international expert on the Australian horror movie industry and is an expert in screen industries research, Australian cinema, and Australian genre cinema. He was the President of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAAZ) between 2015 and 2018 and in this role he led the establishment of the bi-annual SSAAANZ conference. He is the co-editor of several collections on Australian film and television, including Australian Genre Film (forthcoming 2021, Routledge), Australian Screen in the 2000s (2017, Palgrave Macmillan), and the Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 (2015, Intellect).

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