Australian Gothic: A Cinema of Horrors

by Jonathan Rayner

Overview

A study of a distinctly Australian, Gothic film tradition.
 
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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786838896
Publisher:	University of Wales Press
Publication date:	11/10/2022
Series:	Gothic Literary Studies
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Rayner is professor of film studies at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Introduction
Familiarity
Monstrosity
Hybridity
Sublimity
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Jonathan Rayner is already indelibly the most sustained, probing and erudite explorer of Gothic in Australian cinema. In this very welcome book, he goes further in showing Australian cinema since the New Wave to be shot through with the Gothic forces of the uncanny, the fantastic and the sublime."
 

Allison Craven

"The Australian Gothic is a critical reading protocol and Jonathan Rayner has led this field in identifying gothic elements across a diverse range of film genres. This book is his most detailed and comprehensive work that locates and defines horror in Australian Gothic."
 

Mark David Ryan