Intellect

Kristina Gottschall is a film scholar and early career academic at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW. Her doctoral work focused on youthhood in popular Australian film post-1980 from post-structural, pedagogical, feminist and cultural studies' perspectives. When she first started her Ph.D., she hated Aussie films, but learned to see them through a new lens and now is a mad devotee. Kristina's work crosses the domains of education, cultural studies, film studies, cultural history and social semiotics. She currently lectures in the cultural politics of education.

Keywords:  suburbia,Australian cinema,public pedagogy,masculinity,femininity,