The Imagined Desert

• Autores: Tom Drahos
• Localización: Coolabah, ISSN-e 1988-5946, Nº. 11, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production), págs. 148-161
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The following analysis of the Australian Outback as an imagined space is informed by theories describing a separation from the objective physical world and the mapping of its representative double through language, and draws upon a reading of the function of landscape in three fictions; Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness (1899), Greg Mclean’s 2005 horror film Wolf Creek and Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 cinematic adaptation of Kenneth Cook’s novel Wake in Fright2. I would like to consider the Outback as a culturally produced text, and compare the function of this landscape as a cultural ‘reality’ to the function of landscape in literary and cinematic fiction.