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Author : Rachel Palgan
Publisher : Pascal Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1741250358
Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826419089
This fully revised and updated edition of Jonathan Rayner's acclaimed study takes an in-depth look at the career of a filmmaker who has, over the course of 30 years, put together a substantial and much-loved body of work.
Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496800169
Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject. He talks about “the precious desperation of the art, the madness, the willingness to experiment” in all his films; the adaptation process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, “I'm going to eat your script; it's going to be part of my blood!”; and his self-assessment as “merely a jester, with cap and bells, going from court to court.” He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his own story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to his apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the 1960s, his preparations to shoot his first features in the early 1970s, his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An extensive new interview details his current plans for a new film. Interviews discuss Weir's diverse and impressive range of work—his earlier films Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, and The Year of Living Dangerously, as well as Academy Award-nominated Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander. This book confirms that the trajectory of Weir's life and work parallels and embodies Australia's own quest to define and express a historical and cultural identity.
Author : G. M. Dewis
Publisher : Insight Publications
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art criticism
ISBN : 9781921411052
Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781617038983
Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject. He talks about “the precious desperation of the art, the madness, the willingness to experiment” in all his films; the adaptation process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, “I’m going to eat your script; it’s going to be part of my blood!”; and his self-assessment as “merely a jester, with cap and bells, going from court to court.” He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his own story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to his apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the 1960s, his preparations to shoot his first features in the early 1970s, his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An extensive new interview details his current plans for a new film. Interviews discuss Weir’s diverse and impressive range of work—his earlier films Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, and The Year of Living Dangerously, as well as Academy Award–nominated Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander. This book confirms that the trajectory of Weir’s life and work parallels and embodies Australia’s own quest to define and express a historical and cultural identity.
Author : Valerie Sutherland
Publisher : Pascal Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1740201256
Author : Peter Weir
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617038976
The first published collection of interviews with the Australian director whose films include the Academy Award-nominated Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander
Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015040667480
During the course of his twenty-odd-year filmmaking career, Peter Weir has accomplished what so many of his protagonists have failed to do: he has become an accepted, integral part of an unfamiliar culture. At the core of most of his films and at the least peripheral to all of them is the idea of the outsider trying - and ultimately failing - to come to terms with a culture vastly different from his own. Weir, a native of Australia whose name was synonymous with Australian cinema in the 1970s, turned to American filmmaking in the 1980s and never looked back. In Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide, Marek Haltof traces Weir's journey from intensely Australian filmmaker to successful Hollywood director, along the way finding surprisingly consistent evidence of Weir's thematic and visual interests despite dramatic changes in his choices of story and locale.
Author : Don Shiach
Publisher : Charles Letts (London)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015033089429
Author : Michael Bliss
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0809322846
"What we see, and what we seem, are but a dream, a dream within a dream." Michael Bliss views Miranda's voice-over at the beginning of Picnic at Hanging Rock as so pivotal in explaining the films of Peter Weir that he borrows her words to create the title of his own study of the Australian filmmaker's work. Bliss views Weir as an artist whose values are rooted in the realm of the dream, of the unconscious. Surrealistic in technique, Weir avoids the pedestrian assurances of a material realm in favor of an irresolution that, while potentially frustrating, is nonetheless for him a more truthful representation of what he considers reality. For Weir, as for Plato, Bliss demonstrates, "empirical reality is nothing more than a shadow of what is real." Bliss also considers Weir's heritage. Australian cinema, Bliss explains, is characterized by melodramatic narratives born of a desire to see good and evil portrayed in striking opposition. Weir, for example, dramatizes the contradictory forces of light versus darkness, reason versus mystery, and rationality versus magic in such films as Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave. This melodramatic emphasis is evident as well in the polarized characterizations in such films as Witness, Dead Poets Society, and The Truman Show. Bliss also discusses Weir's use of another staple of Australian cinema-- "mateship," the celebration of the bond between male companions. But by making self-knowledge dependent on action involving one's friends, Weir gives mateship a new meaning. Moreover, like other Australian filmmakers, Weir emphasizes the starkness of the Australian landscape, which functions either as a hazard or a deadly challenge, at least until American mythology caused him to see nature in a more positive light. Also prominent in Weir's films is an Australian spirit of rebellion coupled with the Aussie ambivalence toward all aspects of British culture. To help explain Weir's films, Bliss looks to Freud and Jung, whom Weir has studied, and also to two other prominent purveyors of myth and archetype, Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell. Virtually all Weir characters struggle toward a new mode of awareness, a psychological awareness based on archetypal truths. Many of his films involve archetypal journeys heading through conflict to spiritual unity. Weir's quest is to find out what we really know and how we know what we know.
Author : Robert K. Johnston
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780801031878
A comprehensive study of theology and film that explores how the Christian faith is portrayed in film throughout history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
ISBN : UOM:39015073296645
Author : James Berardinelli
Publisher : Justin, Charles & Co.
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781932112405
Thoroughly revised and updated for 2005! Includes a new chapter on the best special edition DVDs and a new chapter on finding hidden easter egg features.
Author : James Monaco
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000440987
From The Big Sleep to Babette's Feast, from Lawrence of Arabia to Drugstore Cowboy, The Movie Guide offers the inside word on 3,500 of the best motion pictures ever made. James Monaco is the president and founder of BASELINE, the world's leading supplier of information to the film and television industries. Among his previous books are The Encyclopedia of Film, American Film Now, and How to Read a Film.
Author : Texas. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112102772151