40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming

Release date : November 10, 1997
Runtime : 1h 7m
Countries of origin : Australia / United Kingdom /
Original Language : English /
Director : George Miller /
Writers : George Miller /
Production companies : BFI / Kennedy Miller Productions /
November 10, 1997 1h 7m Australia Documentary English More
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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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George Miller
Self - Host / Narrator
Joseph Campbell
Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

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  • title:40,000 Years of Dreaming
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1997
  • Runtime:1h 7m
  • Genres: Documentary · TV Movie ·
  • Countries of origin: Australia · United Kingdom ·
  • Original Language: English ·
  • Director: George Miller /
  • Writers: George Miller ·
  • Production companies: BFI · Kennedy Miller Productions ·
  • Overview: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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