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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Gregory Marks

Gregory Marks is a writer and researcher living on Dja Dja Wurrung land. He completed his PhD in 2020 with a thesis on Thomas Pynchon and the Posthuman Gothic, and is presently interested in the convergences of literary and critical theory, philosophies of history, and ecology. More of his work can be found at thewastedworld.com

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Published in Overland Issue 247 Winter 2022 · Film

Feature | ‘That’s not us!’ Wake in Fright and the Australian nightmare

Gregory Marks

Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of Wake in Fright, one of Australian cinema’s most unsettling horror movies, as well as one of its most perceptive works of national self-interrogation. Adapted from Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel of the same name and directed by Ted Kotcheff of later First Blood fame, Wake in Fright has attained a semi-mythical status firstly as a ‘lost movie’