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The Night, the Prowler
1976
1976
(Manuscript version)11416648
11416639
1976
single work
film/TV
horror
'In a wealthy part of Sydney, Felicity Bannister (Kerry Walker) pretends she has been raped by a prowler, in order to take control of her own life. Her neurotic mother (Ruth Cracknell) is more worried about her daughter's upcoming wedding. Her father (John Frawley) is concerned that she's no longer a virgin. As the family's fragile structure crumbles, Felicity becomes a prowler herself.'
Source: Australian Screen (Sighted: 13/7/2012)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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“Splintering and Coalescing” : Language and the Sacred in Patrick White’s Novels
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son 2014; (p. 43-62) ‘In the years directly after World War Two, novelist Patrick White confronted a series of thresholds. Each one would take him further into his vocation as a writer of astounding, dense, haunting novels. The young Patrick White did not, of course, know this at the time. He first needed to cross the world, returning from his beloved London to become an Australian again. He had to begin writing about Australia, about being Australian, but not just this. He began to seek ways of writing about how meaning is made, in Australia and beyond; and how meaning is made alone, and in community. This struggle to make and unmake meaning, it will be argued, is a languaged, sacred struggle. ’ (Introduction) -
Patrick White : A Centenary Tribute
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 71 no. 2 2012; (p. 18-28) -
New Acquisitions : Patrick White Letters
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: SL : State Library of New South Wales Magazine , Spring vol. 3 no. 3 2010; (p. 28) -
Burglary in Shady Hill and Sarsaparilla : The Politics of Conformity in White and Cheever
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 4 2006; (p. 432-442) This paper compares short stories by Patrick White and American John Cheever, arguing that their representations of suburbia and modernity show fundamentally different approaches to each. - y Prophete dans le desert : Essais sur Patrick White Lille : Presses Universitaires de Septentrion , 1997 Z218660 1997 selected work criticism biography
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Burglary in Shady Hill and Sarsaparilla : The Politics of Conformity in White and Cheever
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 4 2006; (p. 432-442) This paper compares short stories by Patrick White and American John Cheever, arguing that their representations of suburbia and modernity show fundamentally different approaches to each. -
Patrick White : A Centenary Tribute
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 71 no. 2 2012; (p. 18-28) -
New Acquisitions : Patrick White Letters
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: SL : State Library of New South Wales Magazine , Spring vol. 3 no. 3 2010; (p. 28) - y Prophete dans le desert : Essais sur Patrick White Lille : Presses Universitaires de Septentrion , 1997 Z218660 1997 selected work criticism biography
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“Splintering and Coalescing” : Language and the Sacred in Patrick White’s Novels
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son 2014; (p. 43-62) ‘In the years directly after World War Two, novelist Patrick White confronted a series of thresholds. Each one would take him further into his vocation as a writer of astounding, dense, haunting novels. The young Patrick White did not, of course, know this at the time. He first needed to cross the world, returning from his beloved London to become an Australian again. He had to begin writing about Australia, about being Australian, but not just this. He began to seek ways of writing about how meaning is made, in Australia and beyond; and how meaning is made alone, and in community. This struggle to make and unmake meaning, it will be argued, is a languaged, sacred struggle. ’ (Introduction)
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