The Films Of Peter Weir
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The Films Of Peter Weir
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Author : Jonathan Rayner
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-09-01
The Films Of Peter Weir written by Jonathan Rayner and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
Dreams Within A Dream
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Author : Michael Bliss
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2000
Dreams Within A Dream written by Michael Bliss and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art categories.
"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.
Peter Weir
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Author : John C. Tibbetts
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2014-02-06
Peter Weir written by John C. Tibbetts and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
The Films Of Peter Weir
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Author : Don Shiach
language : en
Publisher: Charles Letts (London)
Release Date : 1993
The Films Of Peter Weir written by Don Shiach and has been published by Charles Letts (London) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Performing Arts categories.
The Films Of Peter Weir
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Author : Brian McFarlane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Films Of Peter Weir written by Brian McFarlane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Motion picture producers and directors categories.
Generic Dreaming
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Author : Jonathan Richard Rayner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Generic Dreaming written by Jonathan Richard Rayner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
The Mystical Gaze Of The Cinema
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Author : Richard Leonard
language : en
Publisher: Academic Monographs
Release Date : 2009-02-15
The Mystical Gaze Of The Cinema written by Richard Leonard and has been published by Academic Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-15 with Performing Arts categories.
'Magical', 'out of this world', 'an experience you'll never forget': Peter Weir's films have enthralled audiences around the globe. Whether in iconic Australian works such as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli or international mainstream thrillers such as Witness, Weir has deliberately created mystical movie experiences. Modern cinema studies is used to dissecting films on the basis of gender, class or race: now, for the first time, Richard Leonard shows that a mystical gaze also exists and is exercised in the secular multiplex temples of today. The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema is a meticulous and accessible book that uses a psychoanalytic approach incorporating the insights of Jung, film theory and theology to break new ground in what continues to be a hot topic in cinema studies: the spectator/screen relationship. Leonard provides a fresh and innovative perspective on what happens when we behold a film.
The Cinematic Mystical Gaze
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Author : Richard James Leonard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Cinematic Mystical Gaze written by Richard James Leonard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Motion picture producers and directors categories.
Film And Dream
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Author : Józef Marek Haltof
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Film And Dream written by Józef Marek Haltof and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Motion pictures categories.
Peter Weir
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Author : Marek Haltof
language : en
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Peter Weir written by Marek Haltof and has been published by Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Performing Arts categories.
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.