Rebecca Beirne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3496515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Beirne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Beirne |
| SIGNATURE | BEIRNE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2879-8750 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Mad Are You? Anti-stigma guidelines and Australian television
Extraordinary minds, impossible choices
Over the last decade, there has been an increase in the number of televisual protagonist and major secondary characters specifically identified within the text as having a diagnosed mental illness. This is a significant development in the context of characters with a mental illness on television, who were previously usually minor and heavily stigmatised. A key trend with these new protagonists and major characters is the attribution of special ta…
Piracy, Geoblocking, and Australian Access to Niche Independent Cinema
Online audiovisual piracy cannot be properly understood if divorced from its context. This article uses the availability of lesbian-focused films in Australia as a lens through which to consider the relationship between online audiovisual piracy and industry geoblocking practices. It is argued that artificial control through internet geoblocking can limit potential global sales by restricting universal availability of certain films. Anti-piracy d…
New Queer Cinema 2.0? Lesbian-focused films and the internet
Film distributors today find themselves in a world where consumers access media in a radically different way than in decades past. For the major studios or the smallest production company, the need to harness the web as a film sales and delivery platform is ever more vital. The internet has been celebrated for enabling independent and ‘previously marginalised or under-represented voices to be heard by wider audiences’, while also being characteri…
Teen Lesbian Desires and Identities in International Cinema
This article provides an overview of representations of teenage lesbian desires and/or identity in a global cinematic context, addressing twenty-seven films from fourteen nations released between 1931 and 2007. Despite temporal and geographical differences, three main forms of film texts emerged: those that engaged in sub or somewhat textual depictions of teen lesbian desires and relationships; others that offered a tragic take on lesbian desire;…
Screening the Dykes of Oz
This article provides a survey of lesbian representation in Australian-made television programming. Beginning with the 1970s, when Australia led the Anglophone world in terms of queer representation on television, the article discusses major instances of queer women appearing on Australian television including in such shows as Prisoner, Home & Away, Neighbours, All Saints, The Secret Life of Us, Last Man Standing, and Kick
Televising Queer Women
Dirty Lesbian Pictures
Showtime's television drama The L Word (2004-) has an oft-times precarious relationship with obscenity.This is not unlike other lesbian cultural productions, which have had a history of being viewed as obscenity by the mainstream: from the The Well of Loneliness obscenity trial in 1928 2 to criminal charges being laid on a Toronto bookstore for distributing lesbian pornographic magazine Bad Attitude in 1992. 3Likewise, within lesbian cultures, de…
Screening the Dykes of Oz
This article provides a survey of lesbian representation in Australian-made television programming. Beginning with the 1970s, when Australia led the Anglophone world in terms of queer representation on television, the article discusses major instances of queer women appearing on Australian television including in such shows as Prisoner, Home & Away, Neighbours, All Saints, The Secret Life of Us, Last Man Standing, and Kick
Teen Lesbian Desires and Identities in International Cinema
This article provides an overview of representations of teenage lesbian desires and/or identity in a global cinematic context, addressing twenty-seven films from fourteen nations released between 1931 and 2007. Despite temporal and geographical differences, three main forms of film texts emerged: those that engaged in sub or somewhat textual depictions of teen lesbian desires and relationships; others that offered a tragic take on lesbian desire;…
Extraordinary minds, impossible choices
Over the last decade, there has been an increase in the number of televisual protagonist and major secondary characters specifically identified within the text as having a diagnosed mental illness. This is a significant development in the context of characters with a mental illness on television, who were previously usually minor and heavily stigmatised. A key trend with these new protagonists and major characters is the attribution of special ta…
New Queer Cinema 2.0? Lesbian-focused films and the internet
Film distributors today find themselves in a world where consumers access media in a radically different way than in decades past. For the major studios or the smallest production company, the need to harness the web as a film sales and delivery platform is ever more vital. The internet has been celebrated for enabling independent and ‘previously marginalised or under-represented voices to be heard by wider audiences’, while also being characteri…
Dirty Lesbian Pictures
Showtime's television drama The L Word (2004-) has an oft-times precarious relationship with obscenity.This is not unlike other lesbian cultural productions, which have had a history of being viewed as obscenity by the mainstream: from the The Well of Loneliness obscenity trial in 1928 2 to criminal charges being laid on a Toronto bookstore for distributing lesbian pornographic magazine Bad Attitude in 1992. 3Likewise, within lesbian cultures, de…
Televising Queer Women
Screening the Dykes of Oz
This article provides a survey of lesbian representation in Australian-made television programming. Beginning with the 1970s, when Australia led the Anglophone world in terms of queer representation on television, the article discusses major instances of queer women appearing on Australian television including in such shows as Prisoner, Home & Away, Neighbours, All Saints, The Secret Life of Us, Last Man Standing, and Kick
Teen Lesbian Desires and Identities in International Cinema
This article provides an overview of representations of teenage lesbian desires and/or identity in a global cinematic context, addressing twenty-seven films from fourteen nations released between 1931 and 2007. Despite temporal and geographical differences, three main forms of film texts emerged: those that engaged in sub or somewhat textual depictions of teen lesbian desires and relationships; others that offered a tragic take on lesbian desire;…
New Queer Cinema 2.0? Lesbian-focused films and the internet
Film distributors today find themselves in a world where consumers access media in a radically different way than in decades past. For the major studios or the smallest production company, the need to harness the web as a film sales and delivery platform is ever more vital. The internet has been celebrated for enabling independent and ‘previously marginalised or under-represented voices to be heard by wider audiences’, while also being characteri…
Piracy, Geoblocking, and Australian Access to Niche Independent Cinema
Online audiovisual piracy cannot be properly understood if divorced from its context. This article uses the availability of lesbian-focused films in Australia as a lens through which to consider the relationship between online audiovisual piracy and industry geoblocking practices. It is argued that artificial control through internet geoblocking can limit potential global sales by restricting universal availability of certain films. Anti-piracy d…
Extraordinary minds, impossible choices
Over the last decade, there has been an increase in the number of televisual protagonist and major secondary characters specifically identified within the text as having a diagnosed mental illness. This is a significant development in the context of characters with a mental illness on television, who were previously usually minor and heavily stigmatised. A key trend with these new protagonists and major characters is the attribution of special ta…
How Mad Are You? Anti-stigma guidelines and Australian television
Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Lesbian (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)