Journal article
Doing Film Feminisms in the Age of Popular Feminism: A Roundtable Convened by Claire Perkins and Jodi Brooks
Claire Perkins, Jodi Brooks, Janice Loreck, Pearl Tan, Jessica Ford, Rebecca J Sheehan
Australian Feminist Studies | Taylor and Francis Group | Published : 2023
Abstract
In a move that has now been thoroughly documented, the Anglophone West of the past decade or so has become an environment in which feminism is popular. Film and television, and the discourses around them, have been central to this development, with productions from Eternals(Chloé Zhao, 2021)to Fleabag(2016-2019) to Barbie(Greta Gerwig, 2023) prompting an infoglut of commentary that foregrounds and debates the feminist credentials of a wave of new media content that centres women as both characters and creators. But what does it mean to label this content ‘feminist’? Focusing on screen culture and education, the short reflections in this forum consider the tensions of this moment from a varie..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This forum developed from a roundtable at the Cinefeminisms in the Academy Symposium, convened by Jodi Brooks and Jessica Ford, that was held at the University of NSW in December 2019. The symposium was made possible through a school research grant (SRG) from the School of Arts & Media (UNSW) with additional funding support from the University of Newcastle's School of Humanities and Social Sciences. We would like to thank UNSW School of the Arts and Media and University of Newcastle's School of Humanities and Social Sciences for this support. We also thank the symposium's keynote speaker, Anna Backman Rogers, and all symposium participants for the rich and generous discussion that it enabled.