40,000 Years of Dreaming

The read

It runs a compact 1h 7m.

Synopsis

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."

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Key crew

• George MillerDirector
• George MillerWriter
• Carl VineOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• George MillerSelf - Host / Narrator
• Joseph CampbellSelf - Mythologist (archive footage)

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