Associate Professor Tara Brabazon
School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch University
Publications
Books
Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and its music (Perth: UWA Press, 2004), forthcoming
Playing on the periphery: sport, identity and memory (Frank Cass/Routledge, 2004), forthcoming
Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002)
Ladies Who Lunge: Celebrating Difficult Women (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002)
Tracking the Jack: A Retracing of the Antipodes (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000)
Chapters in Books
“Going Off-World after the Cabaret,” from T. Brabazon (ed.), Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and its popular music, (Perth: UWA Press, 2004) forthcoming
“Not of London anymore,” from T. Brabazon (ed.), Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and its popular music, (Perth: UWA Press, 2004) forthcoming
“You’ve got about a year,” from T. Brabazon (ed.), Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and its popular music, (Perth: UWA Press, 2004) forthcoming
"Beyond Calais: Michael Palin and the construction of a foreigner," in Franz Oswald and Maureen Perkins Europe-Divided or United? (Dickson: Southern Highlands Publishers, 2000), pp. 139-152
"Britain's last line of defence: Miss Moneypenny and the desperations of filmic feminism," in Christoph Lindner (ed.), The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2003)
"Neon Girls," in Stuart Clarke (ed.), Football in our Time: A Retrospective of all of The Homes of Football (London: Mainstream Publishing, forthcoming 2003).
"Reclaiming the visual world: Beatlemania, Beatle photographs and a female gaze," in Penelope Hetherington and Philippa Maddern (eds.), Sexuality and Gender in History (Nedlands, WA: Penelope Hetherington & Philippa Maddern, 1993)
"A pig in space? Babe and the problem of landscape," in Ian Craven (ed.) Australian film: Texts and Contexts (London: Frank Cass, 2001)
"Beyond Calais: Michael Palin and the construction of a foreigner," in Franz Oswald and Maureen Perkins Europe-Divided or United? (Dickson: Southern Highlands Publishers, 2000), pp. 139-152
"Britain's last line of defence: Miss Moneypenny and the desperations of filmic feminism," in Christoph Lindner (ed.), The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2003)
"Neon Girls," in Stuart Clarke (ed.), Football in our Time: A Retrospective of all of The Homes of Football (London: Mainstream Publishing, forthcoming 2003).
"Reclaiming the visual world: Beatlemania, Beatle photographs and a female gaze," in Penelope Hetherington and Philippa Maddern (eds.), Sexuality and Gender in History (Nedlands, WA: Penelope Hetherington & Philippa Maddern, 1993)
"The best on Earth in Perth? Aerobics and feminism," in Dennis Hemphill and Caroline Symons (eds.) Bending the Rules: Gender, Sexuality and Australian Sport (Melbourne: Walla Walla Press, 2002)
Refereed Articles
“Fitness is a feminist issue,” Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 19, No. 44, July 2004 (forthcoming)
“Skirt, cap and gown: How fair are universities to female postgraduate students?” Cultural Studies Review, March 2004, (forthcoming)
"A study in black and grey: Aberfan and the politics of forgetting," M/C, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 2003, [cited 15 June 2003]. Available from http://www.media-culture.org.au/0304/07-blackandgrey.html
"A better man?" International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 5, No. 1, 2002, pp. 45-88
"Book Memory and the administration of knowledge," Libri, Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 28-35
"Bonfire of the literacies?: The Internet and challenges to literacy," Social Alternatives, Vol. 21, No. 3, Winter 2002, pp. 55-60
"Dancing through the revolution," Youth Studies Australia, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 19-24 (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"Double Fold or Double Take? Book Memory and the administration of knowledge," Libri, Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 28-35
"Pay and scroll: libraries, reading and the privatisation of knowledge," Media International Australia, No. 103, May 2002, 124-134
"Think Tactically, Act Regionally: A cultural memory introduction," Transformations, 'Cultural Memory' special issue, Vol. 3, May 2002, [cited 21 August 2002]. Available from http://www.ahs.cqu.edu.au/transformations/journal/issue3/issue.htm
"Spirit 2000: The Olympics in documentary," Metro, 2002
"We're one short for the crossing: The reading of a wall," Transformations, 'Cultural Memory' special issue, Vol. 3, May 2002, [cited 21 August 2002]. Available from http://www.ahs.cqu.edu.au/transformations/journal/pdf/no3/brabazon.pdf
"Buff Puffing an Empire," Continuum, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001, pp. 187-200. (Available from CatchWord.)
"Communication in practice: the supervision of distance education teachers," Australian Journal of Communication, Vol. 28 (2), 2001, pp.91-110. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"Introduction: 'Serenity Now!'," Continuum, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001, pp. 141-144. (Written with Wendy Parkins; Available from CatchWord.)
"Feminists Walls: Abbey Road and Popular Memory," New Zealand's Women's Studies Journal, Visual Cultures Special Issue, 2001, pp. 66-84. (I also took the cover photography for this issue.)
"How imagined are virtual communities?" Mots Pluriels, No 18, August 2001 [cited 1 March 2002]. Available from http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1801tb2.html
"Internet teaching and the administration of knowledge," First Monday, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 2001 [cited 1 March 2002]. Available from http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/brabazon
"Theoretical echoes and textual apparitions: Postmodern media culture," Media International Australia, No. 98, February 2001, pp. 184-185.
"The spectre of the spinster," Senses of Cinema, No. 13, April-May 2001, [cited 1 March 2002]. Available from http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/13/spinster.html
"Together in Electric Dreams? Narratives of self, sex and romance in the film Electric Dreams." Metro, No. 126/127, 2001, pp. 33-35. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"Welcome to the Robbiedome," M/C, Vol. 4, No. 3, June 2001, [cited 1 March 2002]. Available from http://www.media-culture.org.au/0106/robbie.html
"Bette Davis and her Camillias," Hecate, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2000, pp. 98-112. (Available from ProQuest: Academic Research Library and InfoTrac: Expanded Academic ASAP International.)
"Dancing through a memory," Irish Studies Review, Vol.8, No. 2, March 2000, pp. 286-288.
"From crayons to perfume, to content providers: teaching in the Informatic Age," Social Alternatives, January 2000, pp. 40-46.
"He lies like a rug: pondering digital memory," Media International Australia, No. 96, August 2000. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"Time for a change or more of the same? Les Mills and the masculinisation of aerobics," Sporting Traditions, Vol. 17, No. 1, November 2000, pp. 97-112.
"We'll always have Paris? Fighting the People's War in Popular Memory," Senses of Cinema, No. 2, January 2000, [cited 1 March 2002]. Available from http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/2/Paris.html
"A pig in space? Babe and the problem of landscape," Australian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, Autumn 1999, pp. 149-158.
"A red light sabre to go-and other histories of the present," M/C, Vol. 2, No. 4, June 1999, [cited 1 March 2002]. Available from http://www.media-culture.org.au/9906/sabre.html
"Britain's last line of Defence: Miss Moneypenny and the desperations of filmic feminism," Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 22, No. 5, September-October 1999, pp. 489-496.
"Interrupting the festivities: Digitising HAL's memory," LIBRI, Vol. 49, No. 3, September 1999, pp. 159-165.
"Noel Coward's Singapore Sling," The Southern Review, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1999, pp. 72-85. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"Star Wars and Writing Popular Memory," Youth Studies Australia, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 11-16. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"We'll always have Tatooine?" Australian Journal of Communication, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1999, pp. 1-10. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"We Love You Ireland:' Riverdance and stepping through Antipodean memory," Irish Studies Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1999, pp. 301-311. (Written with Paul Stock.)
"Brixton's Aflame: Television History Workshop and the other Battle of Britain," Limina, Vol. 4, 1998, 49-55.
"I'll never be your woman: The Spice Girls and New Flavours of Feminism," Social Alternatives, 1998, pp. 39-42. (Written with Amanda Evans.)
"Save Ferris? A guide to Xer media/citizenship," Metro Education, No. 14, 1998, pp. 9-13. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"What's the story morning glory? Perth Glory and the imagining of Englishness," Sporting Traditions, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1998, pp. 53-66.
"Boot politics: pondering the Antipodean Doctor Marten Boot," Continuum, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1997, pp. 59-73. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"Disco(urse) Dancing: Reading the Body Politic," Australian Journal of Communication, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1997, pp. 104-114. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"Making it Big: Julie Burchill, Bitch Politics and Writing in Public," UTS Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1997. This piece was also reprinted (by request) in the refereed on-line journal, Australian Humanities Review, June 1997.
"The scent of a green carnation," Social Semiotics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1997.
"Trace THE FACE: style journalism in the 1980s," Limina, Vol. 3, 1997, pp. 24-32.
"'It started on Queen Street': popular music, cultural identity and the question of landscape," Continuum, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1996, pp. 152-167.
(Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.) "No future? Postyouth and the politics of memory," Youth Studies Australia, Vol. 15, No. 2, June 1996. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs.)
"What will you wear to the Revolution? Thatcher's Genderation and the fashioning of change," Hecate, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1996, pp. 114-127. (Available from Informit Online: Australian Public Affairs and InfoTrac: Expanded Academic ASAP International.)
Current Research Interests
Australian, New Zealand and British cultural studies and cultural history
popular cultural studies
immigration history
youth culture and popular music
fashion and style theory
Antipodean cultures