Adrian Martin

Who is Adrian Martin?

Dr. Adrian Martin is an Australian film and arts critic from Melbourne. Dr. Martin is Associate Professor, Film Culture and Theory at Monash University. In 2013/4, he is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. His work has appeared in many magazines, journals and newspapers around the world, and has been translated into over twenty languages and has regular columns in the Dutch De Filmkrant and in Caiman: Cuadernos de cine.

Martin studied at Melbourne State College in the late 1970s before going on to teach at MSC, Swinburne, Rusden and RMIT. Martin was one of The Age newspaper's film reviewers for 11 years until early 2006 and has worked as a film reviewer for ABC TV and Radio National. He was co-editor of the online film journal Rouge between 2003 and 2009. As of 2011 he is the co-editor, with Girish Shambu, of the online film journal Lola, and also serves as one of the editorial team of Screening The Past. He completed a PhD on film style, titled Towards a Synthetic Analysis of Film Style, through Monash University's Art and Design faculty in 2006, which won the Mollie Holman Award for best Arts PhD thesis.