Getting Under Your Skin: Revisiting Romper Stomper and Snowtown through Embodied Film Theory

In the cinema we are usually positioned away from the film, emphasising the space between subject and object, viewer and viewed. But, as Gabrielle O'Brien contends, there is merit in exploring the relationships between a film and its audience, and in understanding how we can think 'through' film.

Additional keywords: phenomenology, visceral, opticentrism, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Geoffrey Wright, Justin Kurzel, Laura Marks, haptic visuality.