Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand : : Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television / / ed. by Kate Cantrell, Jessica Gildersleeve.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Balanzategui, Jessica,; Cantrell, Kate,; Doolan, Emma,; Gildersleeve, Jessica,; Hinton, Corrine E.,; Holland, Emily,; Jackson, Luke C.,; Jeffery, Ella,; Lawn, Jennifer,; Piatti-Farnell, Lorna,; Shek-Noble, Liz,; Stevenson, Billy,; West, Patrick,
• HerausgeberIn: Cantrell, Kate,; Gildersleeve, Jessica,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Horror and Gothic Media Cultures ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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 an...

Table of 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