Rosemary Overell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Overell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary |
| FAMILY NAME | Overell |
| SIGNATURE | OVERELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8808-7638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
All that from two symbols?!”
Adolescence (2025) is a hit television show that has sparked widespread debate in both the press and in government houses. In this collaboratively written response, we consider how the show might index relatively new social phenomena – that is, involuntary celibate (incel) culture, social isolation, anxiety about young people’s engagement with social mediascapes – but also reproduce older social fears, such as threats to hegemonic institutions an…
Don’t Worry Darling
This article considers ‘post-MeToo’ media culture through a close reading of Olivia Wilde’s 2022 film Don’t Worry Darling by drawing primarily on Jacques Lacan’s approach to anxiety. #MeToo indexed, in its marking of ‘#’, in its saying, in its hashing out, that the ‘me’ of feminist subjectivity and the ‘too’ of a collective form of that subjectivity always bears a marked remainder. There is something which the symbolic will always miss; so too do…
More Than a Hashtag
Theory and Event
Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality
Our contemporary moment is preoccupied with arbitrating and articulating 'reality'. With the spectre of buzzwords like 'fake news' and 'post-truth' we find a scramble to locate or fix some sort of universal 'real' beneath what are positioned as 'fake' articulations. To engage with this crisis, this collection argues for the importance of a new conjuncture in communication and cultural studies of media. Building on Hall's understanding of 'conjunc…
Orienting Feminism
Queer will
This article considers hikikomori as willful subjects. The hikikomori are a portion of the Japanese population who withdraw into their homes. These are mostly young people (between the ages of 15 and 35) and mostly young men. The focus of this article is how hikikomori constitute a challenge to dominant national imaginaries of Japan as a “corporate-family system.” This article analyses popular media and psychiatric representations of hikikomori, …
Making Music in Japan's Underground
Making Music in Japan's Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene JENNIFER MILIOTO MATSUE New York: Routledge, 2009 xv, 152 pp. + notes, references, index; figures ISBN 978-0-415-89799-0 pb http://www
Emo online
This article examines Australian emo subcultural practices and new media technologies. I use subcultural studies to analyse whether emo is, indeed, a subculture. I respond to framings of emo as an ‘Other’ (sub)culture, in mainstream Australian media and Australian alternative music scenes. I interrogate whether, as dominant media claims, emo subculturalists’ internet usage inevitably leads to ‘social alienation’. First, I present a case study of …
The Pink Palace, policy and power
Cultural practices constitute cultural spaces, which include, or exclude, specific identities. This article examines a set of particular ‘home-making’ cultural practices surrounding gentrification in Northcote, Melbourne. I use the notion of home making to understand the implications of gentrification on a particular site, the Pink Palace. The Pink Palace was a former warehouse, located on Eastment Street, Northcote, which operated as a home, a p…
Queer will
This article considers hikikomori as willful subjects. The hikikomori are a portion of the Japanese population who withdraw into their homes. These are mostly young people (between the ages of 15 and 35) and mostly young men. The focus of this article is how hikikomori constitute a challenge to dominant national imaginaries of Japan as a “corporate-family system.” This article analyses popular media and psychiatric representations of hikikomori, …
The Pink Palace, policy and power
Cultural practices constitute cultural spaces, which include, or exclude, specific identities. This article examines a set of particular ‘home-making’ cultural practices surrounding gentrification in Northcote, Melbourne. I use the notion of home making to understand the implications of gentrification on a particular site, the Pink Palace. The Pink Palace was a former warehouse, located on Eastment Street, Northcote, which operated as a home, a p…
The Pink Palace, policy and power
Cultural practices constitute cultural spaces, which include, or exclude, specific identities. This article examines a set of particular ‘home-making’ cultural practices surrounding gentrification in Northcote, Melbourne. I use the notion of home making to understand the implications of gentrification on a particular site, the Pink Palace. The Pink Palace was a former warehouse, located on Eastment Street, Northcote, which operated as a home, a p…
Emo online
This article examines Australian emo subcultural practices and new media technologies. I use subcultural studies to analyse whether emo is, indeed, a subculture. I respond to framings of emo as an ‘Other’ (sub)culture, in mainstream Australian media and Australian alternative music scenes. I interrogate whether, as dominant media claims, emo subculturalists’ internet usage inevitably leads to ‘social alienation’. First, I present a case study of …
Making Music in Japan's Underground
Making Music in Japan's Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene JENNIFER MILIOTO MATSUE New York: Routledge, 2009 xv, 152 pp. + notes, references, index; figures ISBN 978-0-415-89799-0 pb http://www
Orienting Feminism
Queer will
This article considers hikikomori as willful subjects. The hikikomori are a portion of the Japanese population who withdraw into their homes. These are mostly young people (between the ages of 15 and 35) and mostly young men. The focus of this article is how hikikomori constitute a challenge to dominant national imaginaries of Japan as a “corporate-family system.” This article analyses popular media and psychiatric representations of hikikomori, …
More Than a Hashtag
Theory and Event
Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality
Our contemporary moment is preoccupied with arbitrating and articulating 'reality'. With the spectre of buzzwords like 'fake news' and 'post-truth' we find a scramble to locate or fix some sort of universal 'real' beneath what are positioned as 'fake' articulations. To engage with this crisis, this collection argues for the importance of a new conjuncture in communication and cultural studies of media. Building on Hall's understanding of 'conjunc…
Don’t Worry Darling
This article considers ‘post-MeToo’ media culture through a close reading of Olivia Wilde’s 2022 film Don’t Worry Darling by drawing primarily on Jacques Lacan’s approach to anxiety. #MeToo indexed, in its marking of ‘#’, in its saying, in its hashing out, that the ‘me’ of feminist subjectivity and the ‘too’ of a collective form of that subjectivity always bears a marked remainder. There is something which the symbolic will always miss; so too do…
All that from two symbols?!”
Adolescence (2025) is a hit television show that has sparked widespread debate in both the press and in government houses. In this collaboratively written response, we consider how the show might index relatively new social phenomena – that is, involuntary celibate (incel) culture, social isolation, anxiety about young people’s engagement with social mediascapes – but also reproduce older social fears, such as threats to hegemonic institutions an…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)