Recurring Nightmares: Dark Australian Classics Reimagined

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Wake in Fright and Romper Stomper are hallmark contributions to our national cinema, each tapping into anxieties – colonialism, toxic masculinity, migration, isolating landscapes – that, to this day, pervade the Australian psyche. Stephen A Russell explores the long shadows cast by these cinematic classics over their televisual reincarnations.

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reboot, remake, Foxtel, Stan, Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, Alex Dimitriades, Lachy Hulme, Toby Wallace, David Wenham, mythology, nationalism, Peter Weir, Ted Kotcheff, Geoffrey Wright, legacy.