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1 The Devil's Playground : Coming-of-Age as National Cinema Josephine May , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Making Film and Television Histories : Australia and New Zealand 2011; (p. 158-163)
1 A Challenging Vision : The Teacher-Student Relationship in The Heartbreak Kid Josephine May , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 33 no. 4 2009; (p. 405-415) 'This article revisits the 1993 Australian feature film The Heartbreak Kid, in order to examine three unexplored and interconnecting facets: the representation of the female teacher as object of desire; the classroom as an erotically charged arena; and the outcome of the sexual relationship between the protagonists, the young teacher, Christina Papadopoulos, and her seventeen-year-old male student, Nick Polides. The discussion draws on a recent analysis of a similar real life case, in order to show how the film advances a different reading than the current laws encompass. In showing the student's considerable agency in the affair, and in not criminalising the teacher's unethical behaviour towards him, the film contradicts the outcomes of the real case in 2004.' (p. 405)
1 Insistent Bodies Versus the Rule : Male Sexualities and Gender Identities in the Devil's Playground Josephine May , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies , January vol. 10 no. 1 2006; (p. 107-123)
1 y separately published work icon Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Screening the Past : Gender Readings in History and Film vol. 10 no. 1 January James Bennett (editor), Josephine May (editor), 2006 Z1591302 2006 periodical issue
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