Gothic in the Oceanic South

Allison Craven is Associate Professor of English and Screen Studies at James Cook University, Australia, where she teaches children’s literature and Gothic fiction. Her research is on global fairy tale and Gothic narrative, and on Australian cinema, and Australian Gothic in literature and film. She is the author of Fairy Tale Interrupted, Feminisms, Masculinities and Wonder Cinema (2017), and Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema: Poetics and Screen Geographies (2016), and her most recent book is the anthology Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality (co-edited with Jessica Balanzategui, 2023). She is an editor of Anthem’s Film and Culture series. Diana Sandars is an academic in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, with a teaching specialty in screen, cultural, and Indigenous Studies. Diana has a research focus on the child in, and subject of, screen media and has written on the children of Australian and Hollywood screens. She is a member of the editorial board for Anthem Studies in Writers and Films series, and the author of What a Feeling: The Hollywood Musical After MTV (forthcoming 2024) and co-author of Netflix and the Dark Fantasy of Intergenerational Viewing, Routledge, 2023.

Introduction–Gothic Tides in the Oceanic South: Uncanny Contradictions and Compulsions 1. Knowing the Uncanny Ocean 2 “Come in, the Water’s Fine”: The Drowning World of Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977) 3. The Other Alongside: Suburban Mangroves and the Postcolonial Swampy Gothic 4. Acidification, Annihilation, Extinction: Exploring Environmental Crisis on the Great Barrier Reef through Collaborative Ecological Sound Art 5. Hydrocolonial Gothic: Robert Louis Stevenson and Makhanda – A Tale of Northern and Southern Seas 6. Multispecies and Multispirited Seas: Submersion and the Gothic in Two South African Fictions 7. The Aquatic Kiwi Gothic: Isolation, Insanity and the Occasional Fisherman 8. Northern Rivers Gothic, Ballina: A Seacoast Suite on Sharks, Shipwrecks, and the Sea 9. On Mermaids, Disgust and the Gothic Sublime 10 Wayfinding and Finding a Way to Intercultural Storytelling in Moana: Charting Disney’s Gothic in an Oceanic Creation Story 11. Vampire Hydrology and Coastal Australian Cinema: Saturation, Sunlight, and Amphibious Beings