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40,000 Years of Dreaming
“The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand”
19961h 7m
DocumentaryTV Movie
Overview
Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."
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Alternative Titles
White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian CinemaAU
Century of Cinema: 40,000 Years of DreamingGB
40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian CinemaGB
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