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Book Launch – Loop Bar, Melbourne Friday 22 July</span></b></span></span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">You are warmly invited to the joint launch
of two new exciting film studies titles from Palgrave Macmillan – <u><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Violent
Women in Contemporary Cinema</b></span> </u>& <b><u><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen
Media</span> </u></b></span></span></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Monash's School of Media, Film and
Journalism presents the launch of these spectacular new books by Janice Loreck
and Whitney Monaghan, assistant lecturers in Film & Screen Studies at
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<span class="">Please join us on Friday July 22 when Associate Professor
Belinda Smaill will launch Janice Loreck's <u>Violent Women in Contemporary
Cinema</u> and Associate Professor Therese Davis will launch Whitney Monaghan's
<u>Queer Girls, Temporality & Screen Media: Not 'just a phase'</u>.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Where:</b> Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place Melbourne</span></span></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>When:</b> 6:30pm, Friday July 22 2016</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class=""><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
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Contemporary Cinema</span></u></span></b><span class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
explores the exciting challenge posed by women who kill through six </span></span><span class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">films released over the last 20 years: Antichrist (Lars von
Trier, 2009), Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001), Baise-moi (Coralie Thinh </span></span><span class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Thi and Virginie Despentes, 2000),
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994), Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003) and The
Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008). Exploring how these films play with cultural
ideas of 'typical' feminine behaviour and the challenges presented to these by
homicidal women, this daring work takes up a unique focus on the depiction of
violent women in contemporary art and critically-distinguished films. Exploring
the appeal that violent women hold for spectators within this viewing context, Loreck
opens up the discussion of how cinema responds to the cultural construction of
the violent woman as a conundrum and enigma.</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
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<span class="">Janice Loreck is a teaching associate and
researcher in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University and
contributor to The Conversation.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137525079#otherversion=9781349707072">http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137525079#otherversion=9781349707072</a> <br></span></span></p>
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<span class=""><b><u>Queer Girls, Temporalty and Screen Media</u></b> offers
a key intervention into the growing scholarship and increasing visibility of
queer characters in films and television series around the globe. Taking up the
queer girl as a represented and rhetorical figure within film, television and
video, this book analyses the terms of the queer girl’s newfound visibility.
Monaghan’s clear critical perspective argues for a temporal logic that underpins
many representations of queer girlhood. Examining an archive of screen texts
that includes teen television series, teenpics, art-house, queer and
independent cinemas as well as new forms of digital video, she expands current
discourse on both queer representation and girls’ studies by looking at
sexuality through themes of temporality. The first full-length study of its
kind, this book draws on concepts of boredom, nostalgia and transience to offer
a new perspective on queer representation in contemporary screen media.</span><br>
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<span class="">Whitney Monaghan is a teaching associate in Film
& Screen Studies at Monash University and editor and founder of Peephole
Journal, an experimental publication featuring articles by emerging and
established film critics.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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