Catherine Driscoll: 4 books

Book cover of The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience
by Catherine Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016

The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience offers a detailed analysis of the experience and the image of Australian country girlhood. In Australia, 'country girl' names a field of experiences and life-stories by girls and women who have grown up outside of the demographically dominant...
Book cover of The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero

by Catherine Driscoll, Alexandra Heatwole
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

The 2012 film The Hunger Games and its three sequels, appearing quickly over the following three years, represent one of the most successful examples of the contemporary popularity of youth-oriented speculative film and television series. This book considers "The Hunger Games" as an intertextual...
Book cover of Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct
by Megan Watkins, Greg Noble, Catherine Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015

Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on ‘public pedagogies’, the notion of cultural pedagogies signals the importance of the pedagogic in realms other than...
Book cover of DIY Citizenship

DIY Citizenship

Critical Making and Social Media

by Steve Mann, Kate Milberry, Henry Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption. Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
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