{"id":2633,"date":"2022-11-09T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2022-11-09T00:12:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:12:54","slug":"tv-transformations-and-transgressive-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/?p=2633","title":{"rendered":"Book launch: Transgressive Women&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Stack.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2636\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book launch: TV Transformations and Transgressive Women &#8211; From <em>Prisoner Cell Block H<\/em>\u00a0to <em>Wentworth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AFI Research Collection steering committee <strong>Stayci Taylor<\/strong> launches this co-edited collection (with <strong>Radha O&#8217;Meara<\/strong> &#8211; UniMelb, <strong>Tessa Dwyer<\/strong> -Monash and <strong>Craig Batty<\/strong> \u2013 UniSA) on <strong>11 November, 5.30<\/strong> at Melbourne&#8217;s home of screen culture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmi.net.au\/\">ACMI<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating iconic Australian TV shows <em>Prisoner<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Wentworth<\/em>, this collection comprises 19 chapters on different aspects of women-in-prison dramas, including one co-authored by the AFI collection\u2019s <strong>Olympia Barron<\/strong>, and one authored by former AFIRC fellow <strong>Whitney Monaghan<\/strong>) The collection also includes a foreword by prominent TV Studies scholars <strong>Kim Akass<\/strong> and <strong>Sue Turnbull<\/strong> and an interview with <strong>Shareena Clanton<\/strong> (Doreen Anderson, <em>Wentworth<\/em>\u00a0Seasons 1-5). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book came out of the <em>Wentworth is the New Prisoner <\/em>international conference held at RMIT in 2018, combining scholarly presentations with industry panels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featuring a special performance by <strong>Queen Beaver<\/strong>, with #FEAS founder <strong>Emily Gray<\/strong> officially launching the volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book launch: TV Transformations and Transgressive Women &#8211; From Prisoner Cell Block H\u00a0to Wentworth AFI Research Collection steering committee Stayci Taylor launches this co-edited collection (with Radha O&#8217;Meara &#8211; UniMelb, Tessa Dwyer -Monash and Craig Batty \u2013 UniSA) on 11 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/?p=2633\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}