The ambiguities of ancestry: antiquity, ruins and converging traditions of Australian Gothic Cinema

IF 0.4 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Studies in Australasian Cinema Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1080/17503175.2020.1845284
A. Craven
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ABSTRACT ‘Gothic’ is identified as a prominent mode of Australian cinema since the 1970s. In commentary on Australian Gothic films, the aesthetic ancestry is often traced to literary conventions in colonial and pre-colonial British or European literatures. This article draws attention to the convergence of these literary and cinematic traditions and compares the prevalence of landscape as a Gothic figure in Australian films with the architectural elements of historical Gothic literature. The discussion proceeds through the British Gothic novel and its history as analogue of Gothic architecture of the time, and several recent accounts of ‘Australian Gothic’ cinema that invoke this history of the Gothic novel, and the dissonant description of ‘Australian Gothic’ in Susan Dermody and Elizabeth Jacka’s account of Australian Revival films. Two recent productions, Celeste [Hackworth 2018. Australia: Unicorn Films] and the television remake of Picnic at Hanging Rock [Rymer, Kondracki and Brotchie 2018. TV Mini-Series. Australia: Amazon Studios/FremantleMedia/Screen Australia], are compared as recent parodies of Gothic aesthetics that foreground architectural features over landscape. It is argued that while it is important to identify antecedents, the colonial connotations of ancestry are ambiguous and potentially overpower attention to the generative visions in Australian Gothic cinema.
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祖先的模糊性:澳大利亚哥特式电影的古代、废墟和融合传统
摘要:自20世纪70年代以来,“哥特式”被认为是澳大利亚电影的一种突出模式。在对澳大利亚哥特式电影的评论中,美学渊源往往可以追溯到殖民地和殖民前英国或欧洲文学中的文学惯例。本文提请注意这些文学和电影传统的融合,并将澳大利亚电影中作为哥特式人物的景观流行与历史哥特式文学的建筑元素进行了比较。讨论通过英国哥特式小说及其与当时哥特式建筑相似的历史,以及最近对“澳大利亚哥特式”电影的几次描述,这些描述援引了哥特式小说的历史,苏珊·德莫迪和伊丽莎白·杰卡对澳大利亚复兴电影的描述中对“澳大利亚哥特”的不和谐描述。最近的两部作品,Celeste[Hackworth2018。澳大利亚:独角兽电影公司]和电视翻拍版《悬岩野餐》[Rymer,Kondracki和Brotchie 2018。电视迷你系列。澳大利亚:亚马逊工作室/FremantleMedia/Screen Australia],被比作最近对哥特式美学的模仿,将建筑特征置于景观之上。有人认为,虽然识别祖先很重要,但祖先的殖民含义是模糊的,可能会压倒对澳大利亚哥特式电影中生成视觉的关注。
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