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1 online resource |
Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction : Please Check the Signal: Screening the Gothic in the Upside Down -- Part I Gothic Places -- 1. Unsettled Waters: The Postcolonial Gothic of Tidelands -- 2. 'When I Died, I Saw the Whole World' : Uncanny Space and the Māori Gothic in the Aftermath Narratives of Waru and Māui's Hook -- 3. The Kettering Incident: From Tasmanian Gothic to Antarctic Gothic -- 4. 'Going Home is One Thing This Lot of Blockheads Can't Do' : Unhomely Renovations on The Block -- Part II Gothic Genres -- 5. Glocalizing the Gothic in Twenty-First Century Australian Horror -- 6. Terra Somnambulism : Sleepwalking, Nightdreams, and Nocturnal Wanderings in the Televisual Australian Gothic -- 7. Gothic Explorations of Landscapes, Spaces, and Bodies in Jane Campion's Top of the Lake and Top of the Lake: China Girl -- 8. At the End of the World : Animals, Extinction, and Death in Australian Twenty-First-Century Ecogothic Cinema -- Part III Gothic Monsters -- 9. Dead, and Into the World : Localness, Culture, and Domesticity in New Zealand's What We Do in the Shadows -- 10. Mapping Settler Gothic : Noir and the Shameful Histories of the Pākehā Middle Class in The Bad Seed -- 11. Monstrous Victims : Women, Trauma, and Gothic Violence in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and The Nightingale -- 12. From 'Fixer' to 'Freak': Disabling the Ambitious (Mad)Woman in Wentworth -- Index |
Summary |
The persistent popularity of the detective narrative, new obsessions with psychological and supernatural disturbances, as well as the resurgence of older narratives of mystery or the Gothic all constitute a vast proportion of contemporary film and television productions. New ways of watching film and television have also seen a reinvigoration of this 'most domestic of media'. But what does this 'domesticity' of genre and media look like 'Down Under' in the twenty-first century? This collection traces representations of the Gothic on both the small and large screens in Australia and New Zealand in the twenty-first century. It attends to the development and mutation of the Gothic in these post- or neo-colonial contexts, concentrating on the generic innovations of this temporal and geographical focus |
Analysis |
Gothic, Australia, New Zealand, film, television |
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Horror films -- Australia -- 21st century
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Horror films -- New Zealand -- 21st century
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Horror television programs -- Australia -- 21st century
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Horror television programs -- New Zealand -- 21st century
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Film: styles and genres.
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Classic horror and ghost stories.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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Horror films
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Horror television programs
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Television production: technical and background skills.
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Contemporary horror and ghost stories.
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Social, group or collective psychology.
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Australia
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New Zealand
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Cantrell, Kate
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ISBN |
9789048552313 |
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9048552311 |
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