Screening the gothic in Australia and New Zealand : contemporary antipodean film and television / edited by Jessica Gildersleeve and Kate Cantrell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gildersleeve, Jessica, editor.

Cantrell, Kate, editor.

Series:

Horror and Gothic Media Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--Australia--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Horror films--New Zealand--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Gothic Places

1. Unsettled Waters: The Postcolonial Gothic of Tidelands / Emma Doolan

2. `When I Died, I Saw the Whole World': Uncanny Space and the Maori Gothic in the Aftermath Narratives of Warn and Maui's Hook / Emily Holland

3. The Kettering Incident: From Tasmanian Gothic to Antarctic Gothic / Billy Stevenson

4. `Going Home is One Thing This Lot of Blockheads Can't Do': Unhomely Renovations on The Block / Ella Jeffery

pt. II Gothic Genres

5. Glocalizing the Gothic in Twenty-First Century Australian Horror / Jessica Balanzategui

6. Terra Somnambulism: Sleepwalking, Nightdreams, and Nocturnal Wanderings in the Televisual Australian Gothic / Kate Cantrell

7. Gothic Explorations of Landscapes, Spaces, and Bodies in Jane Campion's Top of the Lake and Top of the Lake: China Girl / Liz Shek-Noble

8. At the End of the World: Animals, Extinction, and Death in Australian Twenty-First-Century Ecogothic Cinema / Luke C. Jackson

pt. III Gothic Monsters

9. Dead, and Into the World: Localness, Culture, and Domesticity in New Zealand's What We Do in the Shadows / Lorna Piatti-Farnell

10. Mapping Settler Gothic: Noir and the Shameful Histories of the Pakeha Middle Class in The Bad Seed / Jennifer Lawn

11. Monstrous Victims: Women, Trauma, and Gothic Violence in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and The Nightingale / Amanda Howell

12. From `Fixer' to `Freak': Disabling the Ambitious (Mad)Woman in Wentworth / Corrine E. Hinton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9463721142

9789463721141

OCLC:

1330195406