Picnic at Hanging Rock: Coming of age as a girl in the Gothic colonial institution

Crofts, P; van Rijswijk, H

Picnic at Hanging Rock: Coming of age as a girl in the Gothic colonial institution

Crofts, P

van Rijswijk, H

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Publisher:: Routledge
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Law, Lawyers and Justice Through Australian Lenses, 2020, pp. 106-128
Issue Date:: 2020-06-18

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dc.contributor.author	Crofts, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6018-7159
dc.contributor.author	van Rijswijk, H
dc.contributor.editor	Weinert, K
dc.contributor.editor	Crawley, K
dc.contributor.editor	Tranter, K
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dc.identifier.citation	Law, Lawyers and Justice Through Australian Lenses, 2020, pp. 106-128
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-367-21045-8
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/141665
dc.description.abstract	The novel Picnic at Hanging Rock was written by Joan Lindsay and published in 1967. It depicts Australia’s natural, ‘wild’ bush environment, contrasting it with the Victorian population of the newly established British colony, whose members try to maintain a semblance of colonial ‘civilization’. Peter Weir’s 1975 film of the same name continues to be regarded as an Australian classic; moody, unsettling and enigmatic, critics regard it as ‘a masterpiece of Australian cinema’, with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 95 per cent. Roger Ebert called it a ‘film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria’. More recently, Picnic at Hanging Rock was adapted again for a six-episode television series (2018 FremantleMedia and Foxtel). The series received fair reviews and was regarded as ‘a stylish retelling of an Australian classic’, with a rating of 79 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, a highly influential review-aggregation website for film and television. The focus of this chapter is on the 2018 series, which has a different aesthetic to both the 1975 film and the novel.
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dc.title	Picnic at Hanging Rock: Coming of age as a girl in the Gothic colonial institution
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Abstract:

The novel Picnic at Hanging Rock was written by Joan Lindsay and published in 1967. It depicts Australia’s natural, ‘wild’ bush environment, contrasting it with the Victorian population of the newly established British colony, whose members try to maintain a semblance of colonial ‘civilization’. Peter Weir’s 1975 film of the same name continues to be regarded as an Australian classic; moody, unsettling and enigmatic, critics regard it as ‘a masterpiece of Australian cinema’, with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 95 per cent. Roger Ebert called it a ‘film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria’. More recently, Picnic at Hanging Rock was adapted again for a six-episode television series (2018 FremantleMedia and Foxtel). The series received fair reviews and was regarded as ‘a stylish retelling of an Australian classic’, with a rating of 79 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, a highly influential review-aggregation website for film and television. The focus of this chapter is on the 2018 series, which has a different aesthetic to both the 1975 film and the novel.

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