Summary Australian born film maker George (Mad Max) 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 ; urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia".
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Michel Piccoli Nagisa Ôshima Martin Scorsese Lena Nyman
Genres : History Biography Documentary
Release date : Jul 13, 1999
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Official sites : British Film Institute (BFI)
Language : English
Production companies : British Film Institute (BFI)
Summary Australian born film maker George (Mad Max) 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 ; urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia".
Genres : History Biography Documentary
Release date : Jul 13, 1999
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Official sites : British Film Institute (BFI)
Language : English
Production companies : British Film Institute (BFI)
