Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Ditch the Witch: Julia Gillard and gender in Australian public discourse
Published 2013-01-01This thesis explores the interplay of gender, media, politics and women’s political representation in Australia. I examine how the Australian media has tended to reinforce rather than challenge dominant cultural aspects ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Quality TV”: The reinvention of U.S. television
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the rise to prominence of a new form of “quality television” that has appeared in the U.S. since the 1990s. There are competing and sometimes conflicting ways to define “quality television”, depending ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Ventriloqueer: Finding Voice in the Strange Boyhoods of Disney Princesses
Published 2013-01-01This thesis considers two samples from the Disney Princess film canon as texts that can speak to, and be reclaimed in the name of, queer experience. Ron Clements and John Musker’s The Little Mermaid (1989), and Nathan Greno ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Brief Encounter: Sex and Intimacy in Andrew Haigh’s "Weekend"
Published 2013-01-01This thesis is an exploration of the representation of gay male intimacy in Andrew Haigh’s "Weekend" (2011), a film about a brief encounter between two men. The thesis stages a second brief encounter between Haigh’s film ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Say no to burqas”: geographies of nation and citizenship in Newtown
Published 2012-01-01This thesis is concerned with the ways in which instances of everyday racism reproduce geographies of national belonging and exclusion in the city, focusing specifically on an activist campaign in Newtown, Australia, which ...Open AccessThesis, Honours