"All What We See or Seem" - a Return to Hanging Rock (Or, On the Art of Camouflage)
The recent restoration, fifty years after its initial release, of Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) allows us to revisit a text that remains vastly misunderstood, and which raises pointed questions about the current state of the film industry, film studies, and of cinema writ large; indeed, perhaps, it asks fundamental questions about cinema's place within Western civilization.
Jeremi Szaniawski is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, and the Amesbury Professor of Polish Language and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author and editor of several volumes, including Kubrick's Mitteleuropa: The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (2024) and Fredric Jameson and Film Theory : Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (2022).
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VISITOR INFORMATION
This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. Those who have registered will have priority for seating. Admission is free.
Oshman Hall is located within the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and is free after 4pm on weekdays. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne Garcia at juggarci@stanford.edu.
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