Australian Gothic - A Cinema of Horrors

"Recognized since at least the 1970s, Gothic resemblances in Australian film remain understudied. This book offers the first comprehensive study of the Gothic in Australian cinema. Tracing images of familiarity, monstrosity, hybridity, and sublimity on screen, Jonathan Rayner maps a distinctively national Gothic tradition in Australian film"--Amazon.com.

Summary

The Gothic has contributed a distinctive style and atmosphere to Australian cinema since the 1970s. This book traces the appearance and interprets the meaning of key Gothic aspects of setting, landscape, characterisation and history in varied examples of Australian horror.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Rayner, Rayner Jonathan
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781786838896
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-889-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Gothic Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Cinema, Australia, Gothic, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Jonathan, Horror & ghost stories, of, Australian, Horror and supernatural fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Film: styles & genres, Film: styles and genres, Rayner, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, FICTION / Performing Arts / Film, Television & Radio, Horrors