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Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 399–414

Chapter 23
“A dream within a dream”

The politics of dislocation in Head On and Picnic at Hanging Rock

Article outline
  • The sound of light & color: Weir’s haunting of Australian colonial narratives
  • The residue of silence: Kokkinos’ naked Australian dream
  • Conclusion: Dream bodies
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 16 October 2018
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