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Witness Directed By Peter Weir
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Author : Rachel Palgan
language : en
Publisher: Pascal Press
Release Date : 2003
Witness Directed By Peter Weir written by Rachel Palgan and has been published by Pascal Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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.
Witness Revisited An Appreciation Of Peter Weir S Fantastic Film
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Author : Bernd Wahlbrinck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Witness Revisited An Appreciation Of Peter Weir S Fantastic Film written by Bernd Wahlbrinck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
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.
The Amish In The American Imagination
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Author : David Weaver-Zercher
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2001
The Amish In The American Imagination written by David Weaver-Zercher and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Religion categories.
Enveloped in mystery, Amish culture has remained a captivating topic within mainstream American culture. In this volume, David Weaver-Zercher explores how Americans throughout the 20th century reacted to and interpreted the Amish. Through an examination of a variety of visual and textual sources, Weaver-Zercher explores how diverse groups - ranging from Mennonites to Hollywood producers - represented and understood the Amish.
Peter Weir
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Author : John C. Tibbetts
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2014-02-04
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 2014-02-04 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Witness
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Author : Bruce Pattinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Witness written by Bruce Pattinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Higher School Certificate Examination (N.S.W.) categories.
Witness
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Author : William Kelley
language : en
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
Release Date : 1985
Witness written by William Kelley and has been published by New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Fiction categories.
The Truman Show Directed By Peter Weir
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Author : Valerie Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: Pascal Press
Release Date : 2000
The Truman Show Directed By Peter Weir written by Valerie Sutherland and has been published by Pascal Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Witness
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Author : Earl W. Wallace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Witness written by Earl W. Wallace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Amish categories.
When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their savior turns out to be the hardened Philadelphia detective John Book, who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community.