40,000 Years of Dreaming
"The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand"
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Type: Movie Category: DocumentaryYear: 1997Details
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."
- Genres: Documentary, TV Movie
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Cast:George Miller , Joseph Campbell
- Director: George Miller
- Producer: Bob Last, Colin MacCabe
