dc.contributor.author | Quigley, Paula | en |
dc.contributor.editor | Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Frances A. Kamm | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-27T15:47:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-27T15:47:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | en |
dc.date.submitted | 2019 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | The Babadook, maternal gothic, and the 'woman's horror film', Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Frances A. Kamm, Gothic Heroines on Screen: Representation, Interpretation and Feminist Inquiry, Britain, Routledge, 2019, 222 - 242, Paula Quigley | en |
dc.identifier.other | Y | en |
dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
dc.description | Britain | en |
dc.description.abstract | Like many Australian films, The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014) initially fared far
better overseas than it did at home. Arguably, this can be attributed to several factors that apply
to Australian cinema as a whole: risk-averse programming that favours US productions backed
by big marketing budgets, the associated tendency for Australian films to be limited to short
runs in independent cinemas, along with escalating cinema ticket prices and increasing
competition from television in terms of the availability of ‘quality’ drama (see Dow 2014).
Certainly, as Monica Tan (2014) points out, the film’s positioning as art-house in Australia and
its modest marketing campaign mitigated against its exhibition in multiplexes and more
mainstream outlets, unlike the more extensive campaign that supported its relatively
widespread release in the UK, for example. That said, it seems that ‘Australians still want to
see Australian stories’ (Dow 2014), even if those stories must succeed internationally before
being embraced locally. | |
dc.format.extent | 222 | en |
dc.format.extent | 242 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
dc.rights | Y | en |
dc.title | The Babadook, maternal gothic, and the 'woman's horror film' | en |
dc.title.alternative | Gothic Heroines on Screen: Representation, Interpretation and Feminist Inquiry | en |
dc.type | Book Chapter | en |
dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/pquigley | en |
dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 197647 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://hdl.handle.net/2262/108631 | en |
dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |
dc.description.technical | 978-1138711006 | en |
dc.identifier.orcid_id | 0000-0003-2912-2485 | en |
dc.subject.darat_thematic | Culture | en |
dc.subject.darat_thematic | Gender | en |
dc.status.accessible | N | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2262/108631 | |