Terror Down Under

Terror Down Under
Author: Daniel Best
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2023-07-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 147664831X


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In 1948, the Australian government banned the production, importation and exhibition of horror films in a move to appease religious communities and entertainment watchdogs. Drawing upon previously unseen government documents, private letters and contemporary newspaper accounts, this book is the first to extensively cover the history of censorship and the early production of horror movies in Australia. Beginning its examination in the late 19th century, the book documents the earliest horror films like Georges Melies' The Haunted Castle (1896), and how Australians enjoyed such films before the ban. The book then explains how certain imports, like 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon, were able to circumvent the ban while others were not. It also reveals how Australian television, though similarly impacted by government censorship, was occasionally able to broadcast films technically banned from cinematic release. The work concludes with a look at the first Australian horror films produced after the ban was formally lifted in 1969, like Terry Bourke's Night of Fear (1973).


Terror Down Under
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Daniel Best
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-27 - Publisher: McFarland

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In 1948, the Australian government banned the production, importation and exhibition of horror films in a move to appease religious communities and entertainmen
Terror Down Under
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Daniel Best
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-20 - Publisher: McFarland

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In 1948, the Australian government banned the production, importation and exhibition of horror films in a move to appease religious communities and entertainmen
Terror Australis
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: Penelope Love
Categories: Call of Cthulhu (Game)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Chaosium

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Terror Down Under
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Dennis J Butler
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-04 - Publisher:

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Sleepy Tasmania sits eleven hours by vehicle ferry off the southern coast of eastern Australia and is probably one of the most unlikely place for a small group
Terror in Australia
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Shannon Gilligan
Categories: Children's stories
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Skylark

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Your Uncle Gilroy invites you on an Australian archaeological expedition. You must decide what happens next.