Terra Somnambulism: Sleepwalking, Night Dreams, and Nocturnal Wanderings in the Televisual Australian Gothic
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Cantrell, Kate. 2022. "Terra Somnambulism: Sleepwalking, Night Dreams, and Nocturnal Wanderings in the Televisual Australian Gothic." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate (ed.) Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 123-140
| Chapter Title | Terra Somnambulism: Sleepwalking, Night Dreams, and Nocturnal Wanderings in the Televisual Australian Gothic |
|---|---|
| Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
| ERA Publisher ID | 1135 |
| Book Title | Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television |
| Authors | |
| Author | Cantrell, Kate |
| Editors | Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate |
| Page Range | 123-140 |
| Series | Horror and Gothic Media Cultures |
| Chapter Number | 6 |
| Number of Pages | 18 |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
| Place of Publication | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| ISBN | 9789463721141 |
| 9789048552313 | |
| Web Address (URL) | https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463721141/screening-the-gothic-in-australia-and-new-zealand |
| Abstract | Sleep disturbance has a rich textual history, one that predates the Australian Gothic. However, in the Antipodean context, episodes of deranged and disordered sleep – from daymares and nightdreams to somnambulistic trances – cannot be read as simple restagings of early gothic concerns such as demonic activity or possession. Rather, sleep disturbance in the Australian Gothic brings to light more ordinary horror: the horror of embodied automaticity, the horror of blind complacency, and the horror of discovering the mechanical processes that hide behind the self. The televisual texts examined in this chapter can be linked thematically as a way of working through this horror, a necessity that demands female vigilance but which often culminates problematically in monstrous behaviour or monstrous transformation. |
| Keywords | Australian Gothic; Gothic television; sleepwalking; nocturnal wandering; The Cry; white vanishing |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 360505. Screen media |
| 470502. Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) | |
| 360201. Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) | |
| Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
| Byline Affiliations | School of Creative Arts |
| Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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