Author Josh Nelson and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Josh Nelson and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Josh Nelson is a writer, broadcaster and academic with a background in cinema and cultural studies. His writing has been published in a number of journals and on his website, Philmology. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an editor at Senses of Cinema and the author of Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), Found Footage Horror Film: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (McFarland, 2014), a monograph on Dario Argento’s Suspiria (part of Auteur’s Devil’s Advocates series), and her book on Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 was released in January 2017 as part of Wallflower/Columbia University Press’s Cultographies series. She is a co-host on the Plato’s Cave film criticism programme on Melbourne radio station Triple R, the 2017 Australian Film Institute Research Collection Research Fellow and a researcher at the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts.

Into the Light: Hope, Despair and Haunted Doubles in Laurie McInnes’s Broken Highway (1993)

Josh Nelson and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

July 2017

Pioneering Australian Women

Laurie McInnes’s 1993 film Broken Highway is Australian Gothic at its simultaneously most brutal and beautiful; it is a Nick Cave song come to life. The opening few moments reference a character enigmatically n...