Dr Alex Bevan
Senior Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
Affiliate of Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing
Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing
Affiliate of Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
+61 7 334 68803
Researcher biography
Originally from the States, I've been lecturing at UQ since 2017. I teach Multimedia and Digital Project in the Bachelor of Communications, both of which center on embedding critical perspectives on media into creative and collaborative design and production processes.
My first book The Aesthetics of TV Nostalgia (Bloomsbury, 2019) is an industry study of the people designing sets and costumes for nostalgic US television programmes. You can find my other publications in the areas of television representations of gender, the female body in narratives around nationhood, digital archives, and creative production in Adaptation, Television & New Media, Feminist Media Studies, Cinema Journal, Continuum, Surveillance & Society and Convergence.
Publications
Book
Bevan, Alex (2019). The aesthetics of nostalgia TV: production design and the Boomer era. New York, NY, United States: Bloomsbury. doi: 10.5040/9781501331442
Book Chapter
Bevan, Alex (2022). The stone-cold power dame: TV women in power, state security, and national discourse. TV Transformations and Transgressive Women: From Prisoner Cell Block H to Wentworth. (pp. 289-309) edited by Radha O'Meara, Craig Batty, Tessa Dwyer and Stayci Taylor. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang.
Journal Articles
Bevan, Alex (2024). Feeling safe: safety app discourse and affective labor. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 30 (3), 1170-1185. doi: 10.1177/13548565231218412
Bevan, Alex (2023). Jon Hamm's Post-Mad Men Persona and Representations of Hegemonic Masculinity. Celebrity Studies, 15 (4), 490-505. doi: 10.1080/19392397.2023.2226264
Bevan, Alex (2022). Dating, dying and digital connection during COVID. Meanjin, 81 (3), 150-159.
Bevan, Alex (2022). Heard/Depp: A Movement Built on Absence & What I'm Not Saying
. MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture.
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline, Bevan, Alex and Lincoln, Robyn (2021). Women’s bodies and the evolution of anti-rape technologies: from the hoop skirt to the smart frock. Body and Society, 27 (4), 30-54. doi: 10.1177/1357034x211058782
Bevan, Alex (2019). Designed for threat: Surveillance, mass shootings, and pre-emptive design in school architecture. Surveillance and Society, 17 (3/4), 550-564. doi: 10.24908/ss.v17i3/4.7077
Bevan, Alex (2019). Transferring below-the-line skillsets across creative industries in early television. Continuum, 33 (4), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2019.1621265
Bevan, Alexandra (2018). 3-D printed sets and props : how designers integrate digital technologies. Convergence, 24 (6), 135485651878934-567. doi: 10.1177/1354856518789345
O'Meara, Radha and Bevan, Alex (2018). Transmedia theory's author discourse and its limitations. M / C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, 12 (1).
Bevan, Alex (2017). How to make victory rolls: gender, memory and the archive in YouTube pinup girl hair tutorials. Feminist Media Studies, 17 (5), 755-773. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2017.1298645
Bevan, Alex (2015). Reality TV by June Deery. Information, Communication and Society, 19 (12), 1799-1802. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1114658
Bevan, Alex (2015). The National Body, Women and Mental Health in Homeland. Cinema Journal, 54 (4), 145-151. doi: 10.1353/cj.2015.0048
Bevan, Alex (2013). Archiving the Digital Transition in the Boomer TV Sitcom Remake. Adaptation, 6 (3), 305-319. doi: 10.1093/adaptation/apt007
Bevan, Alex (2012). Nostalgia for Pre-Digital Media in Mad Men. Television & New Media, 14 (6), 546-559. doi: 10.1177/1527476412451499
Conference Papers
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline, Bevan, Alex and Lincoln, Robyn (2019). From chastity belts to smart frocks: The promise of rape-prevention technology. Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 3-5 October, 2019.
Bevan, Alex (2019). Transferring Below-the-Line Skillsets Across Creative Industries in Early Television. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, WA, United States, March 14 2019.
Bevan, Alex (2018). Wentworth, Surveillance and Citizenship. Wentworth is the New Prisoner Conference, Melbourne, Australia, April 6 2018.
Bevan, Alex (2017). Designed for Threat: School Architecture, Mass Shootings and Surveillance Culture. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, United States, March 22-26 2017.
Bevan, Alex (2016). One Fifth the Thickness of a Human Hair: 3D Printing and New Approaches in Film and TV Art Direction. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA, March 30-April 3 2016.
Bevan, Alex (2015). Designing for Liveness: Art Direction and “Quality” in Early Network Anthology Dramas. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, Canada, March 25-29 2015.
Bevan, Alex (2013). How to Make Victory Rolls: Material Memory and Feminisms in Pinup Girl YouTube Tutorials. Console-ing Passions Conference, Leicester, United Kingdom, June 25-27 2013.
Bevan, Alex (2012). Latina Identity and the Politics of Vintage on Ugly Betty. Console-ing Passions Conference, Boston, MA, United States, July 19-20 2012.
Bevan, Alex (2012). Remaking the Cleavers: Archiving Television in Film Adaptations of the Boomer Era Family Sitcom. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, MA, United States, March 21-25 2012.
Bevan, Alex (2010). Masculinity, Family and Nostalgia for Postwar Imaging Technologies. Console-ing Passions Conference, Eugene, OR, United States, April 24-26 2010.
Bevan, Alex (2010). Archiving the Future/Mobilising the Past: “Remembering Baby Boom Advertising Toward ‘Post-Feminist’ Ends?”. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, CA, United States, March 17-21 2010.
Bevan, Alex (2008). Desperate Housewives: New Media, Historical Memory and the Constitution of Female Identity and Feminism. Console-ing Passions Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, April 24-26 2008.
Bevan, Alex (2008). The Ethics of Redesign: Gender, Race and Class in Dr. 90210. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 8-11 March, 2008.
Creative Work
Bevan, Alex (2017). Never Been Cool (podcast). Itunes and YouTube: Itunes and YouTube.
Newspaper Article
Bevan, Alex (2017, 10 13). The Incessant Violation in Aronosky's Mother! Makes Me Mad in a Good Way PopMatters