This dissertation will examine the relationship between the narrative styles of the art cinema and those of mainstream contemporary American cinema. In particular: it will focus on a unique style of narration used in the art cinema since the early decades of the 20th century, contending that “multiform narrative”—a concept adopted from the work of Janet Murray—offers a useful framework for analyzing this style. The key structural features of the “multiform narrative” are its multiple narrative strands and multiple ontologies, and it is the latter feature that sets it apart from other narrative styles. It will argue that “multiform narratives” differ from the unified narratives of classical Hollywood cinema in their use of multiple narrative strands. However, they also differ from multi-strand narratives of American independent cinema in their use of multiple realities. The usefulness of the “multiform” as a category will be demonstrated through a consideration of a diverse group of films ranging from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1919) to Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1951), as well as through contemporary multiple-ontology films such as Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001), Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004). These contemporary films share many narrative and aesthetic characteristics of the earlier multiform films that have become exemplars of “modernist” and/or “art cinema,” even though they have emerged from very different social and institutional contexts. In this respect, the category of the “multiform” will be shown to offer both a flexibility and specificity that is not provided by earlier concepts. Consequently, it provides a framework for analyzing films from different movements and time periods with similar narrative structures that have yet to be considered together on this basis. As a result, the multiform will be shown to close a research gap in the field of complex narrative in the cinema and to provide a helpful refinement to the evolving taxonomy of narrative forms. In addition, it will be argued that a further distinction can be made within the category of the multiform itself through the identification of a style of multiform film that uses subjective realist narration to create its alternate ontological levels. Subjective realism presents the internal world of a character as if it were as real as other levels of narration and, in the films that will be considered, subjective realist strands are used to represent the dreams, hallucinations, and/or lying flashbacks of key characters within the films. A historical overview of subjective realist multiform cinema from 1919 to the present will be offered, and it will be argued that the innovative and challenging contemporary films which employ this narrative structure are aesthetically and narratively indebted to their precursors in the art cinema, but are also informed by recent technological developments as well as contemporary production and reception contexts. They will be shown to be part of a cycle of films emerging in the mid-1990s that has offered multiplex audiences narrative pleasures of the type formerly reserved for the denizens of art house cinema.

The adoption of e-learning technologies in campus universities has not realised its potential for meeting the learning needs and expectations of 21st century students. By modelling university learning and teaching as a complex adaptive system, this thesis develops a new way of understanding and managing the adoption of new learning technologies in campus universities. The literature on learning and teaching in higher education indicates that lecturers??? ability to innovate in their teaching is constrained by tacit and discipline-specific educational knowledge. Introducing new methods and technologies into mainstream university teaching requires explicit review of educational knowledge, and requires support from departmental and institutional organizational systems. Research on organizational change in other contexts, such as manufacturing industry, has used complex adaptive systems modelling to understand the systemic interdependence of individual strategies, organizations and technologies. These models suggest that the integration of new e-learning technologies into mainstream campus university teaching will involve corresponding change processes. Part of this change requires the linking up of diverse disciplinary perspectives on learning and teaching. The thesis develops a conceptual framework for researching university learning and teaching as a complex adaptive system that includes learning technologies, people, and their organization within a university. Complex adaptive systems theory suggests that the capacity of a campus university to adapt to new e-learning technologies will be reflected in patterns in the strategies of those lecturers who are early adopters of those technologies. A context-specific study in the University of New South Wales used cognitive mapping to represent and analyse the strategies of a group of 19 early adopters of e-learning technology. These early adopters were participants in a cross-discipline Fellowship programme intended to develop their ability to act as change agents within the university. Analysis of the maps gathered before and after the Fellowship, triangulated with data on the Fellows??? participation in organizational change, leads to a new way of modelling how university learning and teaching systems, including their technologies, adapt within a complex and changing higher education context.

Copy of author's previously published article inserted. / Includes bibliographies / vi, 230 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This thesis studies the B-cyclodextrins which are modified at the primary rim to incorporate an additional coordination or hydrophobic recognition site. The natural organic host, cyclodextrin and its chemically modified derivatives, are utilised as hosts for the inclusion of a range of guests. The study contributes to understanding the fundamental factors influencing selectivity of binding and the stability of the complexes formed when a guest is bound essentially at two recognition sites. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Chemistry, 1996

Includes a list of publications by the author arising from this thesis. / Bibliography: leaves 174-176. / 178 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Studies the reactivity of metal alkynyl fragments, in particular the formation of compounds containing two or more alkynes, resulting in the preparation of complexes with interesting properties and reactivities. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, Dept. of Chemistry, 2001

ix, 153 [42] leaves : ill., tables ; 26 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, 1974

Summary in end pocket / iv, 176 leaves : diags., graphs ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, 1978

Typescript (photocopy) / 277 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Dept. of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Adelaide, 1982

Includes a list of publications by the author arising from this thesis. / Bibliography: leaves 174-176. / 178 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Studies the reactivity of metal alkynyl fragments, in particular the formation of compounds containing two or more alkynes, resulting in the preparation of complexes with interesting properties and reactivities. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, Dept. of Chemistry, 2001

Typescript (photocopy) / 277 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Dept. of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Adelaide, 1982

Typescript (photocopy) / x, 110 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, 1983