Professor Colin Nettelbeck
Honorary Professorial Fellow
Contact
Tel. 8344 4934email: cnettel@ unimelb.edu.au
office: 245 Cardigan St, Level 2
Biography
Colin Nettelbeck did his undergraduate studies at the University of Adelaide and his doctorate at the Sorbonne. He has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley and at Monash University.Professor Nettelbeck was A R Chisholm Professor of French at the University from 1994 to 2005.
FAHA, Officier des Palmes Académiques Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
Research field
Colin Nettelbeck has written extensively on 20th century French literature, cinema and cultural history. He has a particular interest in the period surrounding the Second World War. He has supervised theses at Honours, Masters and Doctoral levels in all of the above areas.Selected Publications
Books
Nettelbeck, Colin. Dancing with de Beauvoir: Jazz and the French, Melbourne: MUP , 2004.
Nettelbeck, Colin, Jane Warren and Wallace Kirsop. A Century of Cinema: Australian and French Connections. Melbourne, University of Melbourne: 1996.
Nettelbeck, Colin. Forever French: Exile in the United States 1939-1945. New York, Berg: 1991.
Nettelbeck, Colin. The Alliance Française in Australia 1890 – 1990. Clayton: Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations: 1990.
Nettelbeck, Colin (ed.). War and Identity: the French and the Second World War. London, Methuen Educational: 1987.
Nettelbeck, Colin and Penelope A. Hueston. Patrick Modiano: pièces d’identité. Paris, Lettres modernes: 1986.
Nettelbeck, Colin. Lettres à des amies. Cahier Céline V. Paris, Gallimard: 1979.Nettelbeck, Colin. Les personnages de Bernanos romancier. Paris, Minard: 1970.
Volume
Nettelbeck, Colin (ed.). The Australian Journal of French Studies. Special Number on French Cinema, XXXVI, 1. January-April 1999.
Chapters of books
Nettelbeck, Colin. On ‘Being Present at the Victory’: French War Memory and the Nuclear Strategy 1943-1996. In Stephen Alomes and Michael Provis (eds.). French Worlds, Pacific Worlds: French Nuclear Testing in Australia’s Backyard. Melbourne, ISFAR: 1998. pp. 39-49.
Nettelbeck, Colin. The Imaginary Warehouse. In Philippe Lane & John West-Sooby (eds). Traditions and mutations in French studies: the Australian Scene. Qld, Boombana Publications: 1997. pp. 155-174.
Nettelbeck, Colin. Introduction. In Warren, Nettelbeck, Kirsop (eds). A Century of Cinema: Australian and French Connections. Melbourne, University of Melbourne: 1996. pp. 1-6.
Nettelbeck, Colin. Believers in the Republic: Catholics and French Intellectual Life since the Second World War. In Brian Nelson (ed.). Forms of Commitment: Intellectuals in Contemporary France. Melbourne, Monash Romance Studies. 1, 1995. pp. 157-178.
Nettelbeck, Colin. French Responses to the Spanish Civil War. In A. Kenwood (ed.). The Spanish Civil War: a Cultural and historical reader. Oxford, New York: 1993. pp. 201-228.
Nettelbeck, Colin. Le Miroir de Stendhal et le paysage romanesque français d'aujourd'hui: réflexions. In A.S. Newman (ed.). Modern French Fiction (Autour de Claude Ollier). Occasional Monograph No. 5. French-Australian Research Centre, University of NSW: 1993. pp.105-126.
Articles
Nettelbeck, Colin. “Journey to the End of French noir: the Case of Claude Chabrol, Australian Journal of French Studies, XLIII:1 (2006), pp. 59-69.
Nettelbeck, Colin. “A Dissolving Genre, or a Cultural Defence? The polar in French Cinema since 1980”, Clues: A Journal of Detection 24:2 (Winter 2006), pp. 31-44.
Nettelbeck, Colin. “Keeping it all in the Family? French Cinema and the Rencontres de Beaune, 2000-2004”, Modern and Contemporary France 14:1 (February 2006), pp. 85-99.
Nettelbeck, Colin. “Modiano’s stylo: A Novelist in the Age of Cinema”, French Cultural Studies 17:1 (February 2006), pp. 35-54.
Nettelbeck, Colin. “From La nouvelle vague to Histoire(s) du cinéma: History in Godard, Godard in History”, French History and Civilization: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar vol. 1 (2005), pp .104-13.
Nettelbeck, Colin. “Okra and Quenelles: Jazz and Film-making (as Nourishment) in Tavernier’s Round Midnight (1986), Australian Journal of French Studies (2002) XXXIX, 2, 250-270.
Nettelbeck, Colin. “Bazin’s Rib? French Women Film-Makers and the Evolution of the Auteur Concept”, Nottingham French Studies (2002) 41(2), 106-126.
Nettelbeck, Colin. Transfigurations: Verbal and Visual frissons in France’s Millennial Change. Australian Journal of French Studies. XXXIX, 1. 2002. pp. 86-101.