Editing Cinema of Australia (section)

==Genres==
=== Australian Gothic films ===
Gothic films incorporate Gothic elements and can be infused within different genres such as horror, romance, science fiction, and comedy. Australian Gothic films have been an accordant genera ever since the 1970s. Gothic Australian films means to make films that are diverse and use camera techniques in different ways to question what the audience may perceive. One of the Australian Gothic films created by female filmmakers Suzan Dermody and Elizabeth Jacka called ''The Screening of Australia'' (1987), shows different stylistic thematic terms and was the most successful at showing what is called the [[ocker]], a term to describe a (white) Australian savage man. Other than this, there is a strong relationship between Australian Gothic films and Gothic literature. The characters and the actions that happen in a Gothic novel is created into a Gothic film. Most Gothic novels during the 1970s referred to female characters and their Australian cultural values.<ref name=":4">{{cite journal |last1=Rayner |first1=Jonathan |title=Gothic Definitions: The New Australian "Cinema of Horrors" |journal=Antipodes |date=2011 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=91–97 |jstor=41957943 }}</ref>

Although the film ''[[Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'' (1975) was directed by a male filmmaker, it was written by  storyteller [[Joan Lindsay]]. Lindsay decided to make this film culturally related to Australian societal issues of day-to-day lives.<ref name=":4" /> Her film included Gothic materials and gave a twist of horror that later the director will showcase through the mise-en-scene and cinematography. The use of Gothic materials were offered by the filmmakers Dermody and Jacka to other Australian Gothic films that have opened up to a more thematic analysis. Other Gothic films were made to broaden Australian characteristics and features. ''Smoke Em If You Got ‘Em'' (1988), produced by Jennifer Hooks, showcased the protagonist in a supernatural horrific way, but also added a comedic twist to not lose its characterization of film style.<ref name=":4" />