Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture
This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations.
Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture engages with celebrities across a diverse range of fields actors, journalists, athletes, comedians, writers, and television personalities and in doing so critically reflects upon different forms of Australian fame and the media platforms and practices that sustain them. Authors in this volume engage directly with pertinent issues relating to gender and sexuality, including: celebrity feminism and the generative capacity of feminist rage; normative femininity and its instability; hegemonic masculinities; and queerness and its (in)visibility. Contributors also intervene in a number of ongoing debates in media and cultural studies more broadly, including those around the politics and affordances of digital media; whiteness and Australias colonial histories; celebrity labour; and methodologies for celebrity studies. This timely collection urges scholars of celebrity to attend further both to the gendered nature of celebrity culture and to local conditions of production and consumption.
This book will be of key interest to researchers and graduate students in cultural studies, television and film studies, digital media studies, critical race and whiteness studies, gender and sexuality studies, and literary studies.
Anthea Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of four monographs in feminist media and cultural studies, the most recent of which is Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism (with Margaret Henderson, Routledge, 2020). Her book on Germaine Greer, celebrity, and the archive is forthcoming with Routledge.
Joanna McIntyre is a Lecturer in Media Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. She has published extensively in the fields of media studies, trans studies, celebrity studies, and queer theory, including in the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Her monograph, Transgender Celebrity, is forthcoming with Routledge.
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Names: Taylor, Anthea, 1972- editor. | McIntyre, Joanna, editor.
Title: Gender and Australian celebrity culture / edited by Anthea Taylor and Joanna McIntyre.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. | Series: Global gender | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2020034705 (print) | LCCN 2020034706 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138366220 (hbk) | ISBN 9780367681760 (pbk) | ISBN 9780429430442 (ebk) | ISBN 9780429772993 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9780429772986 (epub) | ISBN 9780429772979 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Popular cultureAustralia. | CelebritiesAustralia. | FeminismAustralia. | MasculinityAustralia.
Classification: LCC HM621 .G45 2021 (print) | LCC HM621 (ebook) | DDC 306.0994dc23
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Contents
ANTHEA TAYLOR AND JOANNA MCINTYRE
PART I
Celebrity masculinities and settler colonialism
TANYA SERISIER
SEAN REDMOND
HOLLY RANDELL-MOON
PART II
Feminist politics and celebrity feminisms
JILLY BOYCE KAY
ANITA BRADY
ANTHEA TAYLOR
PART III
Queer celebrity and marginalised subjectivities
JOANNA MCINTYRE
LUCY WATSON
PART IV
Self-presentation and celebrity femininities
SARA TOMKINS
FRANCES BONNER
RENEE MIDDLEMOST
Table of Contents
Page List
Landmarks
Frances Bonner is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focusses on non-fiction television, celebrity and adaptation. Her most recent book is
