The Kettering Incident: From Tasmanian Gothic to Antarctic Gothic
This chapter discusses the relationship between Tasmanian Gothic and post-continuity television through a sustained examination of how place operates in The Kettering Incident (2016). Just as post-continuity television works to undercut the unity of place typical of quality television, so Tasmanian...
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Amsterdam University Press
2022
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721141_ch03 https://scienceopen.com/book?vid=670f43b5-4d10-4c4c-9223-0e74c94567ca |
| Summary: | This chapter discusses the relationship between Tasmanian Gothic and post-continuity television through a sustained examination of how place operates in The Kettering Incident (2016). Just as post-continuity television works to undercut the unity of place typical of quality television, so Tasmanian Gothic challenges the rhetorics of place that are peculiar to Tasmania in Australian history and lore. Similarly, whereas post-continuity television challenges the fixation of quality television with regionalism, Tasmanian Gothic questions the way in which Tasmania, as a region, is received in the Australian popular imagination. Placing these two aesthetic orientations side by side reveals that Tasmanian Gothic is an inherently post-continuous aesthetic. |
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