Seeing With Green Eyes: Tasmanian Landscape Cinema and the Ecological Gaze Jane Stadler November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema As Tom O’ Regan states in his discussion of “Unities of Setting and Landscape” in Australian National Cinema, “It is a commonplace that landscape is central to Australian culture” (1). In order to explore the f...
“What sort of spot is Port Arthur?”: For the Term of His Natural Life and the Tasmanian Gothic Stephen Gaunson November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema … Tasmanian Gothic cinema… tends to be a response to its dark and wet landscapes, which register a paradoxical sense of beauty and menace. The dramatic inclines of Tasmania’s topography, its volatile climate, t...