Nikolas Matovinovic

Bio

Dr Nikolas Matovinovic is an Assistant Lecturer in the School of Media Film and Journalism at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His work focuses on fantasy in screen media, looking at how popular films, series, and games use it to portray social, economic, and ecological themes. His PhD research studied the films of the director and musician John Carpenter and his current research program focuses on how non-human experiences of time manifest in portrayals of animals, plants, and computerised systems. He is a member of ASLEC-ANZ and Melbourne Emerging Screen Scholars, and his writing has been published in Games and Culture, Film Criticism, and Film International.