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dc.contributor.authorHowell, Amanda
dc.contributor.editorDanks, Adrian
dc.contributor.editorGaunson, Stephen
dc.contributor.editorKunze, Peter C.
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T13:02:56Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T13:02:56Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.isbn9783319666754
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-66676-1_9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/378669
dc.description.abstractThis discussion of Jennifer Kent’s 2014 film The Babadook focuses on how it assimilates and adapts genre elements from New Hollywood era suburban horror, using its typically feminised suburban domestic space as the basis of an alternative Australian gothic, distinct from those films that equate Australianness with masculinity. Although Kent herself emphasises the deliberate placelessness of her film, this discussion focuses on how its depiction of a haunted terrace, set in the inner suburbs of Adelaide and inspired by nineteenth-century architecture of Sydney, combines its distinctly Australian setting with elements of the American New Hollywood horror. Of particular interest is how this haunted house tale departs from the aspirational narratives of American suburban horror, with their tendency to idealise the domestic realm under attack, appearing instead to draw inspiration from the Australian social realist film whose focus on working-class urban and inner suburban spaces emphasises the influence of social environment on character.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.publisher.placeSwitzerland
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleAmerican-Australian Cinema: Transnational Connections
dc.relation.ispartofchapter9
dc.relation.ispartofchapternumbers14
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom183
dc.relation.ispartofpageto201
dc.subject.fieldofresearchStudies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode169999
dc.titleThe Terrible Terrace: Australian Gothic Reimagined and the (Inner) Suburban Horror of The Babadook
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorHowell, Amanda


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