Welcome to the June-July Film and Television issue! Highlights include:
- James McNamara on television comedy's new aesthetic
- Felicity Chaplin on tensions within the #MeToo movement
- The 2018 ABR Film survey
- Alecia Simmonds on Rape and Resistance
- Peter Goldsworthy on Hitler's obsession with film
- Sally Grant on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
June-July 2018, no. 402
'Witch-hunt or a great awakening?: Tensions surrounding the #MeToo movement' by Felicity Chaplin
Earlier this year, following the infamous Barnaby Joyce affair, Malcolm Turnbull called for a rethink of the parliamentary code of conduct to ensure this ‘shocking error of judgement’ on Joyce’s part did not happen again. New ‘guidelines’ would prevent senior politicians from engaging in a sexual relationship with their staffers ...
'The drama of it: Television comedy's new aesthetic' by James McNamara
Since I wrote about the golden age of television for ABR’s first film and television issue in 2015, the medium has evolved. Streaming has roared to prominence, with online services like Netflix disrupting television’s form and market as dramatically as cable did to broadcast television in the early 2000s ...
2018 Australian Book Review Film Survey
We invited some writers, film critics, and film professionals to nominate their favourite film – not The Greatest Film Ever Sold, but one that matters to them personally.
Alecia Simmonds reviews 'Rape and Resistance: Understanding the complexities of sexual violation' by Linda Martín Alcoff
Linda Martín Alcoff ends her book Rape and Resistance with the question of love, as it has been explored in the fiction of Dominican- American writer Junot Díaz. There are no easy moral binaries in Díaz’s writing, she notes. Sex lives are navigated in the midst of intergenerational trauma transferred from mothers who are rape victims to daughters and sons. As Díaz says ...
