[csaa-forum] Conference CFA: Wentworth is the New Prisoner (due 30/10/17)

[Kelly McWilliam]

Wentworth is the New Prisoner

a two-day international conference

Thursday 5th and Friday 6th April 2018, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia


Confirmed keynote speakers and panellists: Professor Sue Turnbull (University of Wollongong, Australia); Kim Akass (University of Hertfordshire, UK); Kate Hood (actress, writer and director, aka Prisoner’s Kath Maxwell); Jan Russ (casting director, Prisoner, Neighbours, etc.)


Wentworth (aka Wentworth Prison) is an award-winning Australian prison drama series now in its fifth season and recently renewed for a sixth season. It screens in Australia on Foxtel, in the UK on Channel 5 and in the USA on Netflix. The series was inspired by Prisoner (aka Cell Block H), a groundbreaking drama produced between 1979 and 1986, which was internationally successful and led to a cult following. Set in a women’s prison in contemporary Melbourne, Wentworth dramatises current cultural and political issues, and provides a rich example of creative and industrial screen practice that can often be read in the context of its predecessor, Prisoner.

This conference will unite those who study and are fans of Wentworth and Prisoner, with those who are or who have been involved in making the series.

We invite abstracts for papers (critical or creative, 20 minutes) from academics, practitioners or those who are both, including research degree candidates and early career researchers. All topics related to Wentworth and Prisoner will be considered, with the aim of generating a lively exchange of critical and creative ideas. Our intention is that selected papers from the conference will lead to a publication (most likely an edited collection).


Conference organising committee:


Associate Professor Craig Batty (RMIT University); Dr Tessa Dwyer (Monash University); Dr Radha O’Meara (University of Melbourne); Dr Stayci Taylor (RMIT University).


Please email your 300-word paper abstract, along with a 100-word biography, to governorwentworth at gmail.com<mailto:governorwentworth at gmail.com> by Monday 30 October 2017.


Potential paper and panel topics include, but are not limited to:

●      Gender in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Sexuality and Queerness in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Class in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Prison industrial complex in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Race and ethnicity in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Diversity behind bars

●      Nation in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Violence in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Substance abuse in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Mental health and mental illness in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Aesthetics of Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Serial narrative and Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Performance in Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Wentworth as reboot or remake of Prisoner

●      Television genre and the prison drama

●      Prestige TV and prison dramas

●      Reception of Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Wentworth/Prisoner fans, fan practices and fandoms

●      Distribution of Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Creative practice in the development and production of Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Industrial practice in the development and production of Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Wentworth/Prisoner and transnational TV and format trade

●      Activism, Social Change and Wentworth/Prisoner

●      Music and lyrics in Wentworth/Prisoner


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Tessa Dwyer

Lecturer, Film and Screen Studies
School of Media, Film and Journalism
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Building B, Level 4, Rm B4.28
Caulfield East, VIC 3145 Australia

T +613 9903 4633
Tessa.Dwyer at monash.edu<mailto:Tessa.Dwyer at monash.edu>

Film and Screen Studies
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/film-tv/

President, Senses of Cinema
www.sensesofcinema.com<http://www.sensesofcinema.com>

New book: Speaking in Subtitles: Revaluing Screen Translation<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-speaking-in-subtitles-hb.html> (Edinburgh UP 2017)

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