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Title: The Films of Peter Weir
Publisher: Continuum International Publishi
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0304701238
ISBN 13: 9780304701230
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good

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An examination of the Australian director's short films and feature productions since 1970. Analysis is based on the identification and interpretation of recurrent meaning structures, and the tracing of stylistic and thematic continuities across the filmmaker's career.

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In his academic analysis of Peter Weir's work, including Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), Witness (1985), and Dead Poets Society (1989), Rayner (English/media studies, Univ. of Wales) explains how the Australian director has forged a distinctive voice by merging European art film style with Hollywood genre conventions. Rayner's examination of Weir's short films and 13 features (The Truman Show, the 14th, is referenced but was apparently released after the book was completed) leads him to conclude that Weir's work illustrates "a consistent range of themes: liberty and repression, youth and innocence against age and disillusioned knowledge, clashes of culture and the celebration of unique but unpredictable and inexpressible personal experience." Rayner also explores the rebirth of Australian film, which like many other national cinemas was overwhelmed by Hollywood after World War I. His fluency in film history makes this particularly suitable for informed readers.?Kim R. Holston, American Inst. for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Malvern, PA
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