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Terror Australis

Australian Horror Cinema

Mark Ryan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2099 | 1st ed. 2099
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-47981-1 (ISBN)

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This book offers the first substantive academic study of Australian horror cinema. More specifically, it examines the dominant thematic concerns, generic conventions, and stylistic motifs at the core of an Australian horror cinema tradition. This research interrogates the cultural mythologies that shape these concerns, and investigates the "Australianness" of Australian horror movies. In terms of its approach, the book is a combined genre study and cultural history. Rather than a chronological examination of texts by historical period, the analysis examines distinct subgenres, aesthetic groupings, and tropes that characterize Australian horror cinema. The focus of analysis is on understanding these textual groupings in terms of themes, plots, narrative conventions, settings, and, to a lesser extent, style, as well as distilling the social and cultural meaning of these films. While the book’s emphasis is on understanding Australian horror movies in terms of culturally distinct tropes, the discussion also includes analysis of transnational issues and contexts.

Mark Ryan is Research Leader, Creative Arts, and Senior Lecturer in Film, Screen and Animation for the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is the co-editor of the Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 and Australian Screen in the 2000s (Palgrave Macmillan). His research has been published in such journals as New Review of Film & Television Studies, Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Senses of Cinema, Studies in Australasian Cinema, and Creative Industries Journal. He is currently the President of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAAZ) and an Executive Member of the Australian Screen Producers Education and Research Association (ASPERA).

1. Introduction 2. A History of the Australian Horror Film 3. Industry, the Market, and Transnational Textual Strategies4. Landscape Horror 5. Eco-Horror: Monstrous Animals and Nature’s Revenge 6. Rural ‘Backwoods’ Horror and the Dark Side of the Larrikin 7. Suburban, Urban, and Supernatural Horror8. Indigenous-themed Horror9. The Beach and Horror Films 10. Transnational Horrors

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.10.2099
Zusatzinfo	Approx. 305 p. 20 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Asian cinema • Australian Horror Cinema • Australien; Kultur • Beach Horror • Eco-horror • Film History • Film history, theory and criticism • Films, cinema • Film: styles and genres • Film theory • Genre • Indigenous Horror • Landscape Horror • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • media and communication • Media Studies • Ozploitation • Society and culture: general
ISBN-10	3-319-47981-4 / 3319479814
ISBN-13	978-3-319-47981-1 / 9783319479811
Zustand	Neuware