Joy McEntee

Research Interests

Film and Television North American Literature Pedagogy

Dr Joy McEntee

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Joy McEntee took her BA Hons 1 in English from the University of Western Australia and her PhD from Monash University. Her research and teaching interests focus on Stanley Kubrick, American film, and Adaptation studies, and she teaches courses in all those subjects. She has published in the Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick, Camera Obscura, Screening the Past, Senses of Cinema, Film Criticism, Adaptation, Literature/Film Quarterly, and The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance. However, she is most passionate about teaching, and has won 6 prizes including 2 national awards. She has also won $160,000 to lead projects to make learning better for students. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).

My work focuses on literature-to-screen adaptation and the work of Stanley Kubrick. 

Date Position Institution name
2018 - ongoing Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
1998 - 2018 Lecturer University of Adelaide
1994 - 1997 Tutor Monash University

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2018 Achievement Echo360 ANZ Academic Champion Grant Echo360 / ANZ Australia $3000
2017 Fellowship Associate Fellow HERDSA Australia -
2017 Fellowship Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy United Kingdom -
2016 Award Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence University of Adelaide Australia $8000
2015 Award OLT Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning Office for Learning and Teaching Australia $10,000
2015 Award Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award University of Adelaide Australia 1000
2006 Award Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning Carrick Institute Australia 10,000
2003 Award Fulbright American Studies Institute Award Australian-American Fulbright Commission Australia -
2000 Award Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching University of Adelaide Australia -

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
1994 - 1998 Monash University Australia PhD
1984 - 1988 University of Western Australia Australia BA (Hons)

Date Title Institution name Country
— Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (Online Learning) University of Adelaide -
— Graduate Certificate in Higher Education University of Adelaide -
— Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) Cambridge/RSA -

Year Citation
2025 Mcentee, J. (2025). Ripley. ADAPTATION-THE JOURNAL OF LITERATURE ON SCREEN STUDIES, 18(1), 4 pages.
DOI
2025 McEntee, J. (2025). The Female Avenger, Women's Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television. JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION, 53(3-4), 138-139.
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2024 McEntee, J. (2024). Unfashionable Revenge in Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 17(3), 254-268.
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2024 McEntee, J. (2024). Unfashionable Revenge in Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 17(3), 254-268.
2022 McEntee, J. (2022). Unrealisable Woman: Tania in Stanley Kubrick's Aryan Papers. Senses of Cinema, (103).
2022 McEntee, J. (2022). Promising Young Woman and the Cinematic Renegotiation of Rape-revenge. Senses of Cinema, (100).
2022 McEntee, J. (2022). The Tethered Shadow: Jordan Peele and Stanley Kubrick. FILM CRITICISM, 46(1), 13 pages.
DOI WoS2
2022 McEntee, J. (2022). Lansbury, Angela. Senses of Cinema, (101).
2021 McEntee, J. (2021). Robbie Moore, Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film. Affirmations: of the modern, 8, 1-8.
2021 McEntee, J. (2021). Movies of the 1920s and 1930s. Spirit of Progress, 22(85), 29-31.
2021 McEntee, J. (2021). Vigilantism and the Law in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". FILM CRITICISM, 45(1), 14 pages.
DOI
2021 McEntee, J. (2021). Time Machines: After Kubrick: A Filmmaker's Legacy. Senses of Cinema, (98).
2020 McEntee, J. S. (2020). Hijacking The Shining: Doctor Sleep. Senses of Cinema, (95).
2020 McEntee, J. S., Broderick, M., & Fenwick, J. (2020). Missing links: exploring traces of Kubrick’s ‘unknown’ early works. Senses of Cinema, (96).
2018 McEntee, J. (2018). The camp psychiatrist in American horror and thriller movies: from Psycho and The Manchurian Candidate to M. Night Shymalan's Split (2016).. Screening the Past, (43).
2017 McEntee, J. (2017). Trauma, Shame and Men's Tears in The Manchurian Candidate. Camera Obscura: a journal of feminism and film theory, 32(295), 63-87.
DOI
2017 McEntee, J. S. (2017). Guide to the Classics: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Conversation.
2016 McEntee, J. (2016). Paternal responsibility and bad conscience in adaptations of The Shining. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 9(2), 175-186.
DOI WoS3
2015 McEntee, J. (2015). Melodrama and tragedy in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Literature/Film Quarterly, 43(4), 304-317.
Scopus1 WoS2
2015 McEntee, J. (2015). The end of family in Kubrick's a clockwork orange. Adaptation, 8(3), 321-329.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2009 McEntee, J. (2009). "I'll give you acts of God": God, the father, and revenge tragedy in three Billy Connelly movies.. Literature-Film Quarterly, 37(1), 49-71.
Scopus3
2008 McEntee, J. (2008). Withering Online: English Teaching, E-Learning and Discussions of Embodiment in Pedagogic Research Literature. International Journal of Learning, 14(12), 171-178.
2007 McEntee, J., & Harper, R. (2007). First years, first marks and rude shocks: Developing more explicit and effective ways of preparing humanities students for the first written assignment at University. International Journal of Learning, 14(5), 215-223.
2007 McEntee, J. (2007). Inducing double vision or does the 'threshold concept' account for how students learn about the Hollywood film?. Australasian Journal of American Studies, 26(2), 136-150.
2003 McEntee, J. (2003). Exalting in the terribleness of life: suffering and laughter in the Vienna of The Third Man. Screen Education, 30, 109-114.
2002 McEntee, J. (2002). Uglier than home-made sin: Domestic Surveillance and the Toxic Nanny in the Movies and in Nannycam Broadcasting. Metro, 133, 228-237.
2001 McEntee, J. (2001). "Especially hard on the little things": Fathers and children on the road in American film. AUMLA - Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 96(November 2001), 154-172.
DOI WoS1
1994 McEntee, J. S. (1994). 'Ladies, Bring a Poisoned Plate': Cinematic Representations of the Vengeful Woman. Media Information Australia, (72), 41-48.

Year Citation
2025 McEntee, J., & Pezzotta, E. (Eds.) (2025). Kubrick and Race. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
2025 McEntee, J., & Pezzotta, E. (Eds.) (2025). Kubrick and Race. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
2025 McEntee, J. (2025). Kubrick and Women. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
2025 McEntee, J. (2025). Netflix’s Ripley: Television Antiheroes, Difficult Empathy, and the Aesthetics of Forgery (Vol. Part F1165). Springer Nature Switzerland.
DOI

Year Citation
2024 McEntee, J. (2024). From Caligari to Kubrick: Programmed children in Weimar cinema and Stanley Kubrick's science fictions. In Kubrick S Mitteleuropa the Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (pp. 68-82). Berghahn Books.
DOI
2023 McEntee, J. (2023). Alex’s Voice in A Clockwork Orange: Nadsat, Sinny and Cold War Brainwashing Scares. In Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (pp. 221-241). Springer International Publishing.
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2023 McEntee, J. (2023). What about the daughters? Parenthood in Eyes Wide Shut. In N. Abrams, & G. Orgill (Eds.), Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Kubrick's Masterpiece (pp. 93-112). Liverpool University Press.
2022 McEntee, J. (2022). Someone to Care About: Children in Stanley Kubrick's Films. In K. A. Ritzenhoff, D. Metlic, & J. Szaniawski (Eds.), Gender, Power and Identity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (pp. 276-290). London and New York: Routledge.
2021 McEntee, J. (2021). Kubrick, Marriage and Family. In N. Abrams, & I. Q. Hunter (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (pp. 277-291). New York, London, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic.
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2010 McEntee, J. (2010). Squinting at the Matrix: Critical astigmatism, the grotesque and masculine immanence in the era of digital movies. In G. Menegaldo (Ed.), Gothic N.E.W.S. Volume 2 : Studies in classic and contemporary Gothic Cinema (pp. 153-170). France: Michel Houdiard Editeur.
1999 McEntee, J. (1999). Tasmania, History and Images. In The Oxford companion to Australian film (pp. 486-487). Oxford University Press.
1999 McEntee, J. (1999). Did he smile his work to see?' The Compelling Aesthetics of Murder in The Silence of the Lambs. In eXtensions essays in English studies from Shakespeare to the Spice Girls (pp. 172-185). Wakefield Press.

Year Citation
2017 McEntee, J. S., & Harper, R. (2017). A Delicate Balance: Systematising Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Generic Skill Development Using the Research Skill Development (RSD) Framework. In None. University of Queensland, Brisbane.
2017 McEntee, J. S. (2017). Transphobia and the camp psychiatrist in the movies 1960-1992. In NA. Queen Mary University, London.
2017 McEntee, J. S., Glouftsis, T., Abram, S., Brown, J., Hick, G., & Nunan, S. (2017). Post truth, alternative facts, and the importance of research education. In NA. University College London, London.
2016 McEntee, J. (2016). Trauma, Shame and Men's Tears in The Manchurian Candidate (1963). In None. Oxford, UK.
2013 McEntee, J. S. (2013). Oblivious to the Obvious: Point - of - View blindness in an undergraduate literature/film adaptation course. In None. University of Tasmania.
2013 McEntee, J. S., & Rathore, P. (2013). Virtual Classrooms: web-based synchronous classroom systems & their potential learning/teaching uses in higher education. In HERGA. Adelaide.
2010 McEntee, J. S. (2010). The Weeping Assassin: Melodrama and Tragedy in The Manchurian Candidate. In None.. Adelaide.
2008 Falkner, K., McEntee, J., Palmer, E., & Botten, J. (2008). Establishing an education community of practice. In Proceedings of HERDSA 2008 (pp. 1-9). NZ: HERDSA.
2007 McEntee, J. (2007). "When strong men scream": the cinematic grotesque and the struggle with masculine immanence in Fight Club and The Matrix. In Proceedings of the International Congress of Aesthetics 2007 'Aesthetics Bridging Cultures' (pp. 1-22). www: SANART.
2006 Coulson, M., McEntee, J., & Willison, J. (2006). Annotated bibliographies can help maximize benefit of literature research skills exercises. In International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference (pp. 43-44). Washington DC: International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference.
2006 McEntee, J., Coulson, M., Botten, J., & Willison, J. (2006). Supporting research-readiness in PhD candidates through undergraduate research skills development. In Quality in Postgraduate Research: Knowledge Creation in testing times (pp. 269). Canberra: The Australian National University.
2005 McEntee, J. (2005). 'Residual self-image' and the problem of theorising the cinematic 'grotesque'. In Imagining the Future: Utopia, dystopia and science fiction conference (pp. 1-17). Monash University, Melbourne: Monash University, Melbourne.
2002 McEntee, J. (2002). Billy Connolly's revenge. In Film and History Conference, 2002 (pp. 1-36). Melbourne, Victoria: Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Year Citation
2022 McEntee, J. (2022). Burying Johanna Twice: Tania in Stanley Kubrick's Aryan Papers. Poster session presented at the meeting of Shadow Screens: Unmade, Unseen, Unrealised Film and Television.
2018 McEntee, J. S. (2018). But You Can't Do That in the Humanities!. Poster session presented at the meeting of ECHO360 Australia and New Zealand Conference. Sydney.
2013 McEntee, J. S., & Rathore, P. (2013). Virtual Classrooms: web-based synchronous classroom systems and their potential learning/teaching uses in higher education. Poster session presented at the meeting of None. Adelaide.

Year Citation
2011 Authors: McEntee J. Title: A Ghastly and Inappropriate Splendour: Illuminating Gothic. Description: Extent : 4 pages. Extent: 4 pages.

Year Citation
1997 McEntee, J. S. (1997). Household Justice: Feminism and the Revival of Revenge Tragedy in the Movies. (PhD Thesis, Monash University).

Competitive Funding

Date Project/No. Investigators Funding Body Amount
2017 Learning and Teaching Advancement Grant Scheme Joy McEntee  DVCA, University of Adelaide 9,853
2016 Learning and Teaching Advancement Grant Scheme Joy McEntee  DVCA, University of Adelaide 3,977
2016 Learning and Teaching Advancement Grant Scheme Joy McEntee  DVCA, University of Adelaide 3,883.33
2016 SGDE Development Grant Scheme Joy McEntee et al DVCA, University of Adelaide 39,712
2014 Online learning Joy McEntee Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2,000
2009 Making feedback more useful for students Joy McEntee et al Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 82,350

Teaching Activities 

I have retired from teaching, but before I did, I convened and taught undergraduate courses including 

  • Introduction to English
  • Introduction to Film Studies
  • Hollywood Film
  • European Film
  • Stanley Kubrick: director, adapter, producer
  • Literature to Screen Adaptation
  • Honours Film Theory
  • Honours Film Thesis Workshop
  • Honours Film Thesis

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor American Film (in the Context of World Cinema) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Sarah Karin Huefner
2025 Co-Supervisor Godzilla, the Schrödinger's Cat of the Box Office: How the Godzilla franchise is perceived both as and as not a blockbuster. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Zandalee Lavelle
2025 Co-Supervisor Auteur Policy, French female directors, and the influence of the French New Wave movement Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Travis John Jenner
2025 Co-Supervisor Godzilla, the Schrdinger's Cat of the Box Office: How the Godzilla franchise is perceived both as and as not a blockbuster. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Zandalee Lavelle
2025 Co-Supervisor Auteur Policy, French female directors, and the influence of the French New Wave movement Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Travis John Jenner
2025 Co-Supervisor American Film (in the Context of World Cinema) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Sarah Karin Huefner

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 - 2023 Co-Supervisor 'The Tempus Imperium' & 'The Spectrum of Estrangement: A Model Exploring the Effect of Neosemes and Neologisms on the Implied Reader' Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Juliet Ann Paine
2021 - 2022 Co-Supervisor The Darlings A seven-part television series Volume 1
Exegesis Volume 2		 Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Dancey Elizabeth Gordon
2018 - 2020 Co-Supervisor We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn’: Feminist Afterlives of the Witch in Popular Culture Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Brydie Kosmina
2016 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Volume 1 Dignity of Boundary "Jack London Slept Here (A Novel)
Volume 2 Dignity of Boundary "Foregrounding Dialogue: An Ethical Approach through Courageous Risk" (An Exegesis)		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Robert Meldrum Sedlack
2016 - 2022 Principal Supervisor “A Story in an Obscure Corner of the Front Page”: Patricia Highsmith, Pamela Moore, Joyce Johnson and the Negotiatory Politics of Sexual and Gender Insubordination in Post-War America Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Azadeh Feridoun Pour
2015 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Volume 1: My Killer Secret
Volume 2: 'Literary' Crime Fiction - an Analysis		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Phillipa Deanne Martin
2012 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Volume 1: The Ocean Road
Volume 2: On Writing the Ocean Road		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Megan Janice Clark
2009 - 2012 Principal Supervisor The application of Additional Protocol I civilian protections to armed conflict in the air and at sea - the impact of State practice, the role of customary law and impact on the status of the traditional law of naval warfare Doctor of Philosophy Master Full Time Mrs Joanna Louisa Jarose
2006 - 2011 Co-Supervisor Postclassical Hollywood/Postmodern Subjectivity - Representation in Some 'Indie/Alternative' Indiewood Films Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Jessica Lise Murrell
2002 - 2007 Co-Supervisor Confronting the Limits: Renditions of the Real in the Edge of the Construct Film Cycle Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Katherine Greenwood
2002 - 2009 Principal Supervisor Frontier Mythology in the American Teen Film Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Rowena Harper
2000 - 2004 Principal Supervisor THE WORLD IS CHANGING: ETHICS AND GENRE DEVELOPMENT IN THREE TWENTIETH-CENTURY HIGH FANTASIES Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Kerrie Le Lievre

Date Role Board name Institution name Country
2015 - ongoing Member Academic Board Adelaide Central School of Art Australia

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2016 - ongoing Chair Executive, Adelaide Education Academy University of Adelaide Australia
2015 - ongoing Representative Faculty of Arts Learning and Teaching Committee University of Adelaide Australia
2015 - ongoing Chair School of Humanities Learning and Teaching Committee University of Adelaide Australia
1998 - ongoing Member Department of English and Creative Writing Assessment Committee University of Adelaide Australia
1996 - 2015 Member Department of English and Creative Writing Examinations Committee University of Adelaide -

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