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Comment, Television

Facing the phenomenon: Bitchface/Smugface

by , September 28, 2012 • Leave a comment

Image Credit: kris atomic   ‘A bitchface is a way to express your passive aggression,’ announced 16-year-old online wunderkind Tavi Gevinson to Jimmy Fallon. A recent guest on Fallon’s late night talk show to promote the release of ‘Rookie Year One’ – an exciting text appropriation of … Read more »

Television

Spoiler alert – the end sucks: on televisual addiction and grief

by , May 1, 2012 • 10 Comments

Remember watching the last episode of Six Feet Under, crying for half an hour after it finished, and then missing the characters for weeks after? Or being unable to stop speculating after The Sopranos left you dumbstruck in the end? And how often do you partake in … Read more »

Comment, Television

Sick sad world: feminism and literature in Daria

by Sian Campbell , December 1, 2011 • 5 Comments

Daria Morgendorffer, it’s time to stand up and be counted. Often topping lists compiled on the best examples of strong women in pop culture, cartoon hero Daria is strong, smart and sarcastic. She rejects the notion held by most of the women of Lawndale that a girl’s … Read more »

Comment, Television

Sick sad world: feminism and literature in Daria

by Sian Campbell , December 1, 2011 • 4 Comments

Daria Morgendorffer, it’s time to stand up and be counted. Often topping lists compiled on the best examples of strong women in pop culture, cartoon hero Daria is strong, smart and sarcastic. She rejects the notion held by most of the women of Lawndale that a girl’s … Read more »

Television

‘Are you saying New Orleans is not a great city?’: the stories of Treme

by Julia Tulloh , October 17, 2011 • Leave a comment

Treme is the latest television series from David Simon and Eric Overmyer, who created and produced HBO’s The Wire. Treme is set in the New Orleans district of the same name three months after Hurricane Katrina, and details the ways in which individuals, families and the community … Read more »

Books, Television

Australian stories: ABC TV’s The Slap

by , October 7, 2011 • 7 Comments

When Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap was published in 2008, it was one of those suddenly ubiquitous novels – everyone seemed to own a copy and everyone was talking about the social issues it raised. Read more »