Terror Australis: Australian Horror Cinema

by Mark Ryan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319479814
• ISBN13: 9783319479811
• Release Date: October 2099
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan