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Dreams Within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir
Michael Bliss
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Hardcover. In considering the films of Peter Weir, this text looks to the filmmaker's Australian heritage. The author also looks to Freud and Jung, whom Weir has studied, to examine why many of Weir's films involve archetypal journeys heading through conflict to spiritual unity. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 favour of an irresolution that, while potentially frustrating, is nonetheless for ... Read more
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 favour of an irresolution that, while potentially frustrating, is nonetheless for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809322848
SKU
V9780809322848
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