Kyra Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 6600367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyra Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyra |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7197-1283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist and fun? Humour and ambivalence in Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, 2019)
This paper examines the intersection of humour, feminism, and teen identity in Olivia Wilde's film Booksmart (2019). Centred around two academically ambitious best friends, Molly and Amy, the film navigates their quest to prove that being 'smart' does not preclude being 'fun' as they embark on a night of revelry before graduation. Through a critical analysis of two key scenes – catching a Lyft with their Principal and hallucinating becoming dolls…
‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies in Song Exploder
Intimacy is an important and growing concept in both media studies and podcast studies. But research regarding intimacies in both disciplines has yet to fully account for the connection between sound and normativity, which is essential to podcasting and important to mediated intimacies more broadly. In this article, we mobilise scholarship from these two fields to analyse the award-winning music podcast Song Exploder. Our study highlights that at…
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”? Tracing the implications of a song in Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
When Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) dressed as Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) from 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes performs “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” in Cathy Yan’s 2020 film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), links are drawn between 70 years of film history and women’s representation on screen. In this article, I put various iterations of “Diamonds” into dialogue to explore how this moment in Birds of Prey…
Teens on screens
Teen film is a space where stories about young people’s engagement with technology are told and where relationships and communication are represented. How do girls engage with such stories? This article draws on material from two focus groups held with girls at high schools located in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand in November 2019 and places this in the context of other representations of image sharing and texting in teen films over th…
Education and affinity? pedagogies of sexual citizenship in LGBTIQ youth support videos
This article provides an analysis of some of the ways in which educational resources for youth frame identity, sexuality and normativity within broader contexts of support and sexual citizenship. It focuses on online video resources for young people produced in Australia by the LGBTIQ support and curriculum advocacy organisation Safe Schools Coalition Australia and by the Minus18 Foundation. Developed as part of the larger All of Us educational p…
Sex and ambivalence
In popular and academic discourse, sexual identity is regularly linked to a concept of sexual engagement with others. Recent thinking on sexuality has, however, opened up the possibility of understanding ‘identity’ in ways different from sexual behaviour. This paper considers data from the Australian Queer Generations project, in which findings indicate that young Australian participants express complex ambivalences towards sex and sexual express…
Thinking through moments of sexual refusal in Looking for Alibrandi and The Rage in Placid Lake
This paper explores two scenarios in which young women refuse the sexual advances of young men in the films Looking for Alibrandi and The Rage in Placid Lake. The paper highlights the heteronormative nature of education around refusing sex, which reinstates gendered stereotypes of masculine as active and feminine as passive. Acknowledging sex education literature over the past ten years which has highlighted that ambiguity, confusion and uncertai…
Willful knitting? Contemporary Australian craftivism and feminist histories
In this article, I connect two contemporary Australian examples of craftivism, Casey Jenkins’s performance art piece ‘Casting Off My Womb’ and the Knitting Nannas Against Gas in Lismore, NSW, to explore histories of feminism, performance art and activism. I argue that these public acts of knitting are disruptive, they challenge expectations and disturb order. I highlight some of the complexities in feminism’s relationship with domesticity, noting…
Surrendering expectations of the girl in Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty
Following a screening of Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty (2011) at the Sydney Film Festival in 2011, I was surprised by the antagonism in questioners' responses to the main character Lucy which appeared to reify the ‘girl’ within conventional expectations of feminine behaviour. Lucy is a young university student who, as one of many part-time jobs, is voluntarily drugged so as to sleep naked and peacefully in bed with older men who may do with her a…
Becoming Pregnant
This article considers the implications of the presence of Juno's pregnant girl body in the film Juno (2007). The narrative follows the high school student Juno's pregnancy, her decision to have the baby adopted, and its birth as she attempts to determine her feelings for her friend Bleeker. As a pregnant girl, Juno persists in a state of liminality and disrupts linear ideas of becoming: becoming woman, becoming mother, becoming feminist. Having …
Pedagogical moments
This paper considers three pedagogical moments in the film Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), contemplating the way in which they open a space for conversations about feelings, sexuality and gender. Tomorrow, When the War Began follows the plight of 17-year-old Ellie who returns to her rural town from a camping trip with her friends, to find Australia has been invaded. The film combines the chaos and confusion of war with the happiness and conf…
Willful knitting? Contemporary Australian craftivism and feminist histories
In this article, I connect two contemporary Australian examples of craftivism, Casey Jenkins’s performance art piece ‘Casting Off My Womb’ and the Knitting Nannas Against Gas in Lismore, NSW, to explore histories of feminism, performance art and activism. I argue that these public acts of knitting are disruptive, they challenge expectations and disturb order. I highlight some of the complexities in feminism’s relationship with domesticity, noting…
Sex and ambivalence
In popular and academic discourse, sexual identity is regularly linked to a concept of sexual engagement with others. Recent thinking on sexuality has, however, opened up the possibility of understanding ‘identity’ in ways different from sexual behaviour. This paper considers data from the Australian Queer Generations project, in which findings indicate that young Australian participants express complex ambivalences towards sex and sexual express…
Teens on screens
Teen film is a space where stories about young people’s engagement with technology are told and where relationships and communication are represented. How do girls engage with such stories? This article draws on material from two focus groups held with girls at high schools located in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand in November 2019 and places this in the context of other representations of image sharing and texting in teen films over th…
Education and affinity? pedagogies of sexual citizenship in LGBTIQ youth support videos
This article provides an analysis of some of the ways in which educational resources for youth frame identity, sexuality and normativity within broader contexts of support and sexual citizenship. It focuses on online video resources for young people produced in Australia by the LGBTIQ support and curriculum advocacy organisation Safe Schools Coalition Australia and by the Minus18 Foundation. Developed as part of the larger All of Us educational p…
Becoming Pregnant
This article considers the implications of the presence of Juno's pregnant girl body in the film Juno (2007). The narrative follows the high school student Juno's pregnancy, her decision to have the baby adopted, and its birth as she attempts to determine her feelings for her friend Bleeker. As a pregnant girl, Juno persists in a state of liminality and disrupts linear ideas of becoming: becoming woman, becoming mother, becoming feminist. Having …
Pedagogical moments
This paper considers three pedagogical moments in the film Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), contemplating the way in which they open a space for conversations about feelings, sexuality and gender. Tomorrow, When the War Began follows the plight of 17-year-old Ellie who returns to her rural town from a camping trip with her friends, to find Australia has been invaded. The film combines the chaos and confusion of war with the happiness and conf…
Surrendering expectations of the girl in Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty
Following a screening of Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty (2011) at the Sydney Film Festival in 2011, I was surprised by the antagonism in questioners' responses to the main character Lucy which appeared to reify the ‘girl’ within conventional expectations of feminine behaviour. Lucy is a young university student who, as one of many part-time jobs, is voluntarily drugged so as to sleep naked and peacefully in bed with older men who may do with her a…
Becoming Pregnant
This article considers the implications of the presence of Juno's pregnant girl body in the film Juno (2007). The narrative follows the high school student Juno's pregnancy, her decision to have the baby adopted, and its birth as she attempts to determine her feelings for her friend Bleeker. As a pregnant girl, Juno persists in a state of liminality and disrupts linear ideas of becoming: becoming woman, becoming mother, becoming feminist. Having …
Thinking through moments of sexual refusal in Looking for Alibrandi and The Rage in Placid Lake
This paper explores two scenarios in which young women refuse the sexual advances of young men in the films Looking for Alibrandi and The Rage in Placid Lake. The paper highlights the heteronormative nature of education around refusing sex, which reinstates gendered stereotypes of masculine as active and feminine as passive. Acknowledging sex education literature over the past ten years which has highlighted that ambiguity, confusion and uncertai…
Willful knitting? Contemporary Australian craftivism and feminist histories
In this article, I connect two contemporary Australian examples of craftivism, Casey Jenkins’s performance art piece ‘Casting Off My Womb’ and the Knitting Nannas Against Gas in Lismore, NSW, to explore histories of feminism, performance art and activism. I argue that these public acts of knitting are disruptive, they challenge expectations and disturb order. I highlight some of the complexities in feminism’s relationship with domesticity, noting…
Sex and ambivalence
In popular and academic discourse, sexual identity is regularly linked to a concept of sexual engagement with others. Recent thinking on sexuality has, however, opened up the possibility of understanding ‘identity’ in ways different from sexual behaviour. This paper considers data from the Australian Queer Generations project, in which findings indicate that young Australian participants express complex ambivalences towards sex and sexual express…
Education and affinity? pedagogies of sexual citizenship in LGBTIQ youth support videos
This article provides an analysis of some of the ways in which educational resources for youth frame identity, sexuality and normativity within broader contexts of support and sexual citizenship. It focuses on online video resources for young people produced in Australia by the LGBTIQ support and curriculum advocacy organisation Safe Schools Coalition Australia and by the Minus18 Foundation. Developed as part of the larger All of Us educational p…
Teens on screens
Teen film is a space where stories about young people’s engagement with technology are told and where relationships and communication are represented. How do girls engage with such stories? This article draws on material from two focus groups held with girls at high schools located in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand in November 2019 and places this in the context of other representations of image sharing and texting in teen films over th…
‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies in Song Exploder
Intimacy is an important and growing concept in both media studies and podcast studies. But research regarding intimacies in both disciplines has yet to fully account for the connection between sound and normativity, which is essential to podcasting and important to mediated intimacies more broadly. In this article, we mobilise scholarship from these two fields to analyse the award-winning music podcast Song Exploder. Our study highlights that at…
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”? Tracing the implications of a song in Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
When Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) dressed as Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) from 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes performs “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” in Cathy Yan’s 2020 film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), links are drawn between 70 years of film history and women’s representation on screen. In this article, I put various iterations of “Diamonds” into dialogue to explore how this moment in Birds of Prey…
Feminist and fun? Humour and ambivalence in Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, 2019)
This paper examines the intersection of humour, feminism, and teen identity in Olivia Wilde's film Booksmart (2019). Centred around two academically ambitious best friends, Molly and Amy, the film navigates their quest to prove that being 'smart' does not preclude being 'fun' as they embark on a night of revelry before graduation. Through a critical analysis of two key scenes – catching a Lyft with their Principal and hallucinating becoming dolls…
Sociology (11 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Feeling (4 works)