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Adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock Joan Lindsay , 1967 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Picnic at Hanging Rock
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form y separately published work icon Picnic at Hanging Rock [Episode One] Beatrix Christian , Australia : FremantleMedia Australia Foxtel , 2018 14122076 2018 single work film/TV Australia : FremantleMedia Australia Foxtel , 2018
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form y separately published work icon Picnic at Hanging Rock [Episode 4] Alice Addison , Australia : FremantleMedia Australia Foxtel , 2018 15762029 2018 single work film/TV

'Hester struggles to contain mounting hysteria as aftershocks from the disappearance continue to disrupt the old order. A mysterious visitor summons memories of Hester's dark past, whilst Sara seeks escape from the college. Meanwhile, we are taken into the story of the missing girls in the months leading up to the picnic, and the dark stain of the unsolved mystery continues to spread.'  (Production summary)

Australia : FremantleMedia Australia Foxtel , 2018

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Works about this Work

A Happy and Instructive Haunting : Revising the Child, the Gothic and the Australian Cinema Revival in Storm Boy (2019) and Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) Allison Craven , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 45 no. 1 2021; (p. 46-60)

'A recent spate of remakes of film titles dating from the Australian cinema revival in the 1970s suggests a renewed interest in this significant corpus. It has a deeper resonance insofar as the original films also represent landmarks in Australian Gothic aesthetics. In two of these productions, Storm Boy (2019) and Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), the renewal of the Gothic discourses and the allied figure of the child are inflected by an optimistic vein of “post-millennial Gothic”. It is apparent in the styling and in the post-feminist and cultural consciousness of both productions, and the sense in which both remakes provide resolutions to the earlier films and embed layers of contemporary social pedagogy in the revised Gothic scenarios. Both of these productions suggest a recognition that the films of the cinema revival may not speak to a current generation, and this dissonance is particularly apparent in the revised figure of the lost child in the remakes.' (Publication abstract)

The Ambiguities of Ancestry : Antiquity, Ruins and Converging Traditions of Australian Gothic Cinema Allison Ruth Craven , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 14 no. 3 2020; (p. 162-177)

‘Gothic’ is identified as a prominent mode of Australian cinema since the 1970s. In commentary on Australian Gothic films, the aesthetic ancestry is often traced to literary conventions in colonial and pre-colonial British or European literatures. This article draws attention to the convergence of these literary and cinematic traditions and compares the prevalence of landscape as a Gothic figure in Australian films with the architectural elements of historical Gothic literature. The discussion proceeds through the British Gothic novel and its history as analogue of Gothic architecture of the time, and several recent accounts of ‘Australian Gothic’ cinema that invoke this history of the Gothic novel, and the dissonant description of ‘Australian Gothic’ in Susan Dermody and Elizabeth Jacka’s account of Australian Revival films. Two recent productions, Celeste [Hackworth 2018. Australia: Unicorn Films] and the television remake of Picnic at Hanging Rock, are compared as recent parodies of Gothic aesthetics that foreground architectural features over landscape. It is argued that while it is important to identify antecedents, the colonial connotations of ancestry are ambiguous and potentially overpower attention to the generative visions in Australian Gothic cinema.' (Publication abstract)

Australian TV to Watch in 2017 : Big Names, New Talent and Classic Stories Revisited Amanda Meade , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 14 December 2016;

— Review of Newton's Law Belinda Chayko , Chris Corbett , Elizabeth Coleman , Elizabeth Packett , Ellie Beaumont , Hilary Bonney , Sue Hore , Elizabeth Packett , Michael Voigt , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Seven Types of Ambiguity Jacquelin Perske , Jonathan Gavin , Marieke Hardy , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; The Warriors Jon Bell , Tracey Rigney , Tony Briggs , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Hoges Marieke Hardy , Keith Thompson , 2016 series - publisher film/TV ; Blue Murder : Killer Cop Peter Schreck , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Wake In Fright Stephen M. Irwin , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Picnic at Hanging Rock Beatrix Christian , Alice Addison , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Olivia Elizabeth Coleman , Pip Karmel , 2018 series - publisher film/TV
The Problem with ... TV Reboots of Classic Films Ben Pobjie , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 15 September 2016; (p. 2) The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 September 2016; (p. 4)
Hall is the Rock for Actor Matt Gilbertson , Anna Vlach , Antimo Iannella , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 8 September 2016; (p. 27)
Australian TV to Watch in 2017 : Big Names, New Talent and Classic Stories Revisited Amanda Meade , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 14 December 2016;

— Review of Newton's Law Belinda Chayko , Chris Corbett , Elizabeth Coleman , Elizabeth Packett , Ellie Beaumont , Hilary Bonney , Sue Hore , Elizabeth Packett , Michael Voigt , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Seven Types of Ambiguity Jacquelin Perske , Jonathan Gavin , Marieke Hardy , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; The Warriors Jon Bell , Tracey Rigney , Tony Briggs , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Hoges Marieke Hardy , Keith Thompson , 2016 series - publisher film/TV ; Blue Murder : Killer Cop Peter Schreck , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Wake In Fright Stephen M. Irwin , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Picnic at Hanging Rock Beatrix Christian , Alice Addison , 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Olivia Elizabeth Coleman , Pip Karmel , 2018 series - publisher film/TV
Foxtel Is Making a 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' TV Series 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Daily Review , 6 September 2016;
Mystery Rocks on as Cult Film Gets TV Reboot Michael Idato , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 September 2016; (p. 20)
Why I'm Wary of a Picnic at Hanging Rock Remake Josephine Tovey , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 8 September 2016; (p. 18) The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 September 2016; (p. 16)
Hall is the Rock for Actor Matt Gilbertson , Anna Vlach , Antimo Iannella , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 8 September 2016; (p. 27)
The Problem with ... TV Reboots of Classic Films Ben Pobjie , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 15 September 2016; (p. 2) The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 September 2016; (p. 4)
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