Gothic in the Oceanic South (PDF)

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.