TV Transformations & Transgressive Women: From Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth

ISBN-13: 9781789975062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Anne Brewster; Tessa Dwyer; Stayci Taylor

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This book explores Australian TV dramas about women in prison, offering a range of scholarly and industry perspectives. Including an interview with a Wentworth star, and comparisons with Netflix's Orange is the New Black, this volume offers a new mapping of TV shifts and transformations through the lens of female transgression.

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Contents: Radha O'Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor and Craig Batty: Breakout Women: Introduction to TV Transformations, Gender and Transgression - On the Inside: Voices from Industry - Interview with Shareena Clanton: Representation, Responsibility and Racism: A Courageous Conversation with Shareena Clanton - Tessa Dwyer and Philippa Burne: Repeat Offender: TV Remakes, Reboots and Revival from Prisoner to Wentworth and beyond - Radha O'Meara: Scriptwriting on the Inside: The Streamlined System of Prisoner and the Collaborative Community of Wentworth - Helen Milte: «I Want to See Rit' Connors. I Want to See Her Now!»: The TV Series Guest Performer as Intertextual Messenger - She's Got Form: Narrative, Genre and Motif - Kim Yen Howells-Ng: Women in the System: Narrative Modes and Rhetoric in Wentworth and Orange is the New Black - Niall Brennan: Flashbacks and Morality in Women's Prison TV Drama - Kate Warner: Gothic Themes in Australian TV's Women's Prison Dramas - Corrine E. Hinton and Cathrine Hoekstra: «You Want to See Your Daughter? You Tell Me What Happened»: Motherhood and the Market Economy in Wentworth - Tough Love: Punishment, Power and Identity - Jessica Ford: Orange is the New Black, Wentworth and Contemporary Media Feminisms: Systemic Inequality and Individual Responsibility - Josie Rose Atkinson: Prison Blues and Token Truths: Inside the Reality and Fantasy of First Nations Representations in Australian Women's Prison Drama Wentworth - Whitney Monaghan: Doing (Queer) Time in Wentworth - Sam McCracken: «And Then They Confiscate Her Hormones»: Trans Incarceration and/ in Wentworth and Orange is the New Black - Diana Sandars: The Motherless Teenage Daughter: Lock Her Up or Send Her Away - Alex Bevan: The Stone- Cold Power Dame: TV Women in Power, State Security and National Discourse - On the Outside: Fandom, Activism and Afterlives - Olympia Barron, Catherine Gillam and Alexander Gionfriddo: Telling It Like It Was: Independent Activist Filmmaking, Australian Prison Systems and Prisoner - Craig Haslop and Craig Batty: From Boys to Men via Cell Block H: Prisoner, Queer Identities and Productive Fan Nostalgia - Amanda K. Allen: «It's Not My Fault I Help Girls Realize They're Lesbians»: Compulsory Homosexuality as Communication in Online Wentworth Fandom - Renee Middlemost and Stayci Taylor: Competing Desires, Competing Interests: Opening the Dialogue between Wentworth, Fans and Industry - Alexa Scarlata: Recommending Wentworth to the World: How Netflix «Changed the Show» and Australian TV Drama Production.

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The editors of this volume are screen studies and screenwriting scholars with specialist skills in a range of areas and practices, including script development, gender studies and television studies. Radha O'Meara is Lecturer in Screenwriting at the University of Melbourne. Her critical research concentrates on serial storytelling and industrial authorship in contemporary film and television. Tessa Dwyer is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, Monash University. Her research focuses on screen media and language difference, and she has published the monograph Speaking in Subtitles (2017). Stayci Taylor is Senior Lecturer, Master of Media, RMIT University. Her research focuses on screenwriting practice, and she has co-edited two books on script development. Craig Batty is Professor and Dean of Research (Creative) at the University of South Australia. He has published fifteen books and many articles on screenwriting and creative practice research.