Picnic at Hanging Rock

by Anna Backman Rogers

Peter Weir's haunting and allusive Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new Australian cinema, seen as exemplary of a peculiarly Australian style of heritage filmmaking.

Anna Backman Rogers' study considers Picnic from feminist, psychoanalytic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 183902335X
• ISBN13: 9781839023354
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 7.5"