Michelle Arrow Michelle Arrow i(A5266 works by)
Gender: Female
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Michelle Arrow has been associate professor of history at Macquarie University.

In 2020, her The Seventies: The Personal, Political and the Making of Modern Australia was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Awards (Non-fiction) and won the Ernest Scott Prize.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2016 recipient National Library of Australia Fellowships Supported by Library Patrons and Supporters for Private Lives, Public Politics: A new history of the 1970s in Australia
2011 recipient Frederick Watson Fellowship

Awards for Works

“Smash Sexist Movies” : Gender, Culture and Ocker Cinema in 1970s Australia 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 46 no. 2 2022; (p. 181-195)

'The 1970s is often characterised as the decade of Australia’s “new nationalism”, expressed most potently in a wave of cultural activity nurtured by government funding. The figure of the ocker was central to this new nationalism, particularly in film. The ocker, a contemporary masculine archetype devoted to beer, sex and swearing, was a star of Australian films such as The Adventures of Barry McKenzieAlvin PurplePetersen and Don’s Party. Yet few scholars have considered the ocker in a gendered context, remarkable when we consider that while the ocker films were being produced, the women’s liberation movement was mounting a radical challenge to Australian cultural, social and political norms. What new understandings of 1970s society and culture might result if we read the new nationalist ocker and women’s liberation in the same frame? This article examines the relationship between ocker culture and women’s liberation in the 1970s. It argues that we can read new nationalist popular culture as a site of gendered cultural contest, with a particular focus on feminist responses to ocker culture, including Alvin Purple, and a reading of the film Petersen.' (Publication abstract)

2022 winner John Barrett Award for Australian Studies Open category
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