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1-Discuss the role of geography and place in any film adaptation and its source text from weeks 6-10.

Peter Weir, adapted to film the novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay in 1975. I will explore how this adaptation portrays the clash between colonizers and the aborigine. This postcolonial gothic clearly contrasts the attitude of the settlers and colonizers with the myths and traditions of the

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