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Article: Out of place: reading (post) colonial landscapes as Gothic space in Jane Campion's films.
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- December 22, 2005
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Many cultural critics and film scholars observe that a recurrent fascination with landscape and topography characterizes the national cinemas of Australia and New Zealand. Filmmakers in both countries use landscapes, including cityscapes and suburbia, as more than a mere backdrop for human dramas, employing them instead as codes and metaphors for social and psychological relationships, historical myths and contemporary social issues (see Collier and Davis). In his book, South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia, Ross Gibson argues that the Australian landscape in film is indeed,
a leitmotif and a ubiquitous character ...
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