Picnic at Hanging Rock
BFI Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-83902-335-4 (ISBN)
Anna Backman Rogers' study considers Picnic from feminist, psychoanalytic and decolonialising perspectives, exploring its setting in a colonised Australian bushland in which the Aboriginal people are a spectral presence in a landscape stolen from them in pursuit of the white man's 'terra nullius'. She delves into the film's production history, addressing director Weir's influences and preoccupations at the time of its making, its reception and its lasting impact on visual culture more broadly. Rogers addresses the film's treatment of the young schoolgirls and their teachers, seemingly, as embodiments of an archetype of the ‘eternal feminine’, as objects of the male gaze, and in terms of ideas about female hysteria as a protest against gender norms. She argues that Picnic is, in fact, highly subversive: a film that requires its viewers to read its seductive surfaces against the grain of the image in order to uncover its psychological depths.
Anna Backman Rogers is Professor of Aesthetics, Culture and Feminist Theory at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the author of American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and The Crisis-Image (2015), Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure (2019), and Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden’s Wanda (2020). She is also the co-editor of three books on feminism and visual culture with Laura Mulvey and Boel Ulfsdotter. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Mai: Feminism and Visual Culture.
Acknowledgments
1 Within a Dream: Origins, Production and Filming
2 Waiting a Million Years Just for Us: Artistic Influences and Uncanny Spaces
3 Quite Intact: The Male Imaginary and Courtly Love
Conclusion: Girls on the Verge; Femininity and Hysteria
Notes
Credits
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.10.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | BFI Film Classics |
Zusatzinfo | 50 colour illus |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 135 x 190 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-83902-335-X / 183902335X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-83902-335-4 / 9781839023354 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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