Dangerous locations: The missing person in Australian cinema

Abstract:

The outback has long had a mysterious place in white Australia's psyche, depicted on the big screen as a vast landscape in which one might get lost and never come back. Yet, as Dean Biron and Tiffany Sutherland outline - with reference to a selection of films about lost or missing characters from the last fifty years - these cultural and cinematic anxieties have slowly but surely shifted away from the rural and towards the suburban, a milieu that can be as threatening as it is familiar.