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TV Transformations & Transgressive Women AUSTRALIAN STUDIES: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Series Editor Anne Brewster Associate Professor, University of New South Wales Volume 4 PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Wien TV Transformations & Transgressive Women From Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth Edited by Radha O'Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor and Craig Batty PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Wien Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche National-bibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: O'Meara, Radha, 1975– editor. | Dwyer, Tessa, 1970– editor. | Taylor, Stayci, 1969– editor. | Batty, Craig, 1981– editor. Title: TV transformations & transgressive women : from Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth / Radha O'Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor, Craig Batty [editors]. Description: Oxford, UK ; New York : Peter Lang, 2022. | Series: Australian studies: interdisciplinary perspectives, 22978194 ; vol no. 4 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021055723 (print) | LCCN 2021055724 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789975062 (hardback) | ISBN 9781789975079 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789975086 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Prison television programs—Australia—History and criticism. | Women prisoners on television. | LCGFT: Essays. Classification: LCC PN1992.8.P75 T83 2022 (print) | LCC PN1992.8.P75 (ebook) | DDC 791.45/75—dc23/eng/20220210 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021055723 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021055724 Cover image © Daryn Wolfsbauer. Cover design by Peter Lang Ltd. ISSN 2297-8194 ISBN 978-1-78997-506-2 (print) ISBN 978-1-78997-507-9 (ePDF) ISBN 978-1-78997-508-6 (ePub) © Peter Lang AG 2022 Published by Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, Oxford, United Kingdom [email protected], www.peterlang.com Radha O'Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor and Craig Batty have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Editors of this Work. All rights reserved. All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. Contents List of Figures ix Kim Akass and Sue Turnbull Foreword xi Acknowledgements xvii Radha O’Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor and Craig Batty Breakout Women: Introduction to TV Transformations, Gender and Transgression 1 Part I On the Inside: Voices from Industry 19 interview with Shareena Clanton 1 Representation, Responsibility and Racism: A Courageous Conversation with Shareena Clanton 21 Tessa Dwyer and Philippa Burne 2 Repeat Offender: TV Remakes, Reboots and Revival from Prisoner to Wentworth and beyond 35 Radha O’Meara 3 Scriptwriting on the Inside: The Streamlined System of Prisoner and the Collaborative Community of Wentworth 63 vi Contents Helen Milte 4 ‘I Want to See Rit’ Connors. I Want to See Her Now!’: The TV Series Guest Performer as Intertextual Messenger 81 Part II S he’s Got Form: Narrative, Genre and Motif 103 Kim Yen Howells- Ng 5 Women in the System: Narrative Modes and Rhetoric in Wentworth and Orange is the New Black 105 Niall Brennan 6 Flashbacks and Morality in Women’s Prison TV Drama 125 Kate Warner 7 Gothic Themes in Australian TV’s Women’s Prison Dramas 149 Corrine E. Hinton and Cathrine Hoekstra 8 ‘You Want to See Your Daughter? You Tell Me What Happened’: Motherhood and the Market Economy in Wentworth 169 Part III T ough Love: Punishment, Power and Identity 191 Jessica Ford 9 Orange is the New Black, Wentworth and Contemporary Media Feminisms: Systemic Inequality and Individual Responsibility 193 Contents vii Josie Rose Atkinson 10 Prison Blues and Token Truths: Inside the Reality and Fantasy of First Nations Representations in Australian Women’s Prison Drama Wentworth 211 Whitney Monaghan 11 Doing (Queer) Time in Wentworth 227 Sam McCracken 12 ‘And Then They Confiscate Her Hormones’: Trans Incarceration and/ in Wentworth and Orange is the New Black 243 Diana Sandars 13 The Motherless Teenage Daughter: Lock Her Up or Send Her Away 265 Alex Bevan 14 The Stone- Cold Power Dame: TV Women in Power, State Security and National Discourse 289 Part IV O n the Outside: Fandom, Activism and Afterlives 311 Olympia Barron, Catherine Gillam and Alexander Gionfriddo 15 Telling It Like It Was: Independent Activist Filmmaking, Australian Prison Systems and Prisoner 313 Craig Haslop and Craig Batty 16 From Boys to Men via Cell Block H: Prisoner, Queer Identities and Productive Fan Nostalgia 339 viii Contents Amanda K. Allen 17 ‘It’s Not My Fault I Help Girls Realize They’re Lesbians’: Compulsory Homosexuality as Communication in Online Wentworth Fandom 363 Renee Middlemost and Stayci Taylor 18 Competing Desires, Competing Interests: Opening the Dialogue between Wentworth, Fans and Industry 393 Alexa Scarlata 19 Recommending Wentworth to the World: How Netflix ‘Changed the Show’ and Australian TV Drama Production 417 Notes on Contributors 437 Index 445
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