17 November 2011
An insult to “normal” moms everywhere: Kate Gosselin, reality TV and the contested terrain of celebrity motherhood
Public lecture by AFI Research Collection International Fellow, Brenda Weber.
Event details
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An insult to “normal” moms everywhere: Kate Gosselin, reality TV and the contested terrain of celebrity motherhood |
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2011-12-07 |
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5:00pm |
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RMIT Building 9, Level 3, Room 6A |
About the speaker:
Brenda Weber is the inaugural recipient of the AFI Research Collection’s International Fellowship, established to raise the profile of the collection amongst film and television scholars in Australia and overseas, and to develop research projects connected to the collection.
About the lecture:
There is perhaps no more hated figure in American popular culture at the present moment than Reality TV star and mother of eight, Kate Gosselin. The aggregate critique indicates that she is guilty of two crimes: she cheated in her climb to upward mobility by wanting celebrityn too much and she has defied a dearly held (if not always overtly uttered) belief that middle-class heteronormative motherhood should be fully consummating to a woman.
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Brenda Weber