Author Blythe Worthy

Blythe Worthy

Blythe Worthy is a PhD candidate in the English Department in the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research calls on feminist discourses of space to analyse representations of noncis-men in Antipodean film and literature. Worthy has been published in 4:3, Philament Journal, contributes reviews to the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network and has appeared on Triple J’s Hack and SBS’s The Feed. She recently guest edited a special edition of Philament Journal entitled “New Waves: Twenty-First Century Feminisms.”

Questioning the “Strong Female Character”: Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide (1987)

Blythe Worthy

July 2017

Pioneering Australian Women

In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, when the Australian Film and Television School (AFTRS) program was in full swing and the Sydney Women's Film Group was working to support emerging filmmakers, the Australian pub...