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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Henderson, Margaret

Titel

A CELEBRATORY FEMINIST AESTHETICS IN POSTFEMINIST TIMES: Screening Australian Women's Liberation in Paper Giants - The Birth of Cleo

Ist Teil von

• Australian feminist studies, 2013-09, Vol.28 (77), p.250-262

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 2011, something surprising happened in terms of Australian feminist cultural memory: a celebratory feminism arrived in the shape of the hugely popular ABC television mini-series, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo. Eschewing dour social realism for a stylish and ludic narrative, Paper Giants uses the story of the women's magazine Cleo to tell the story of Australian women's liberation. This essay analyses the components of the mini-series' celebratory feminist aesthetics, examining the ways in which it mobilises feminist tropes to speak an intelligible feminist language in postfeminist times. Further, I detail how women's liberation becomes central to the national historical narrative underpinning the programme.