Autobiographical and historical representations of maternal embodiment and the single mother in the hybrid documentary Maverick Mother

This paper and digital presentation will examine the autobiographical mode of authorship employed by the Australian first-person documentary Maverick Mother (Merewether, 2008), commissioned by SBS television in 2007, and directed/produced by Janet Merewether for Screen Culture. I will argue that both the production and audience reception of the feminist autobiographical documentary remains a highly political process, despite the second wave of feminist activism having permeated most western cultures close to fifty years ago.