Reawakening in Yoorana: Glitch and the Australian Gothic film

Season 1 of ABC Australia television series Glitch applies Gothic themes to a modern, semi-rural Australian context. Borrowing heavily from Australian gothic cinema, the series sees several characters returning from the dead in the fictional town of Yoorana. Each returnee is from a different time pe...

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Published in:	New review of film and television studies 2018-07, Vol.16 (3), p.221-237
Main Author:	Richards, Stuart
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Aesthetics Australian cinema Australian culture Australian Gothic Australian history Australian television Masculinity Narrative techniques National identity quality television Television programs
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Summary:	Season 1 of ABC Australia television series Glitch applies Gothic themes to a modern, semi-rural Australian context. Borrowing heavily from Australian gothic cinema, the series sees several characters returning from the dead in the fictional town of Yoorana. Each returnee is from a different time period in Australia's history, returning from the time of colonial settlement through to the more recent past. Each returnee's revelations play to Glitch's Gothic narrative of violent memories, personal yet representative of Australia's history, coming back to haunt the current residents of Yoorana. Much like seminal Australian Gothic films, such as Wake in Fright, the television show inverts clichéd notions of 'Australian-ness' and presents them as grotesque. In particular, the show represents a crisis of Australian masculinity.
ISSN:	1740-0309 1740-7923