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Angela Punch McGregor tries her hand overseas : Brealey hurries home in Australian film review (24th May-6th June 1984) vol.2 iss.7 p.22
Author: Schwartz, Eric PhysDes: ArticleSubject: MCGREGOR, ANGELA PUNCH ; BREALEY, GIL ; ANNIE'S COMING OUT (AT, Gil Brealey, 1984) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; LIGHTHORSEMEN, THE (AT, Simon Wincer, 1987) ; NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978) ; WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982) Summary: Overseas correspondent Eric Schwartz interviews director Gil Brealey and star Angela Punch McGregor of the film “Annie's Coming Out”. Altough the article is mainly focused on “Annie’s Coming Out” there is brief discussion of other films either Brealey or McGregor have been involved withNotes: "Annie's Coming Out" is also known by its US title "A Test of Love"
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The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Thomas Keneally [Sydney]: Fontana, 1978.
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The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Henry Reynolds Sydney and Canberra: Currency Press and the Australian Film Commission, 2008.
Call No: 79CHA REYAuthor: Reynolds, Henry Place: Sydney and CanberraPublisher: Currency Press and the Australian Film CommissionPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 80 p. : ports. ; 19 cmSeries: Australian Screen ClassicsSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; KENEALLY, THOMAS Summary: In this compelling critique, Henry Reynolds explores the difficult relationship between fiction and history. Reynolds views The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith in its political and historical context, and examines the ways in which a study of Australian cinema is also a study of Australian social issues.-BlurbNotes: Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Motion picture) directed by Fred Schepisi.
Bibliography: p.76-78.ISBN: 9780868198248Language: EnglishContents: Australian Screen Classics -- Acknowledgements -- 1: A Thrice-Told Tale -- 2: Jimmy Governor's Short, Tragic Tale -- 3: Looking for a Legend -- 4: Governor Becomes Blacksmith -- 5: The Rampage of the Blacksmith Brothers -- 6: The Critics Respond -- 7: Audiences Confronted -- 8: The Historian's Reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Credits
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The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith [DVD] Australia: Umbrella Entertainment, 2008.
Call No: D The chant of Jimmie BlacksmithEdition: 30th Anniversary collectors edition.Place: AustraliaPublisher: Umbrella EntertainmentPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 2 videodiscs (DVD) (117 min.) : digital, col. ; 4 3/4 in.Subject: CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) Summary: Based on historical fact, the story follows the life of a certain half caste Aboriginal named Jimmy Governor. Jimmy marries a white girl hoping to achieve assimilation into white society but, instead, he becomes an object of loathing and ridicule. In the winter of 1900, after some harassment from farmers, he murders a family near Gilgandra in New South Wales. He and his full blood Aborigine brother, Joey embark upon an odyssey of murdering whites. Hunted and hounded, he is eventually captured, tried, sentenced to death, and executed. -- Libraries Australia.Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1978.
Includes special features.
"The film was made with the financial assistance of the Australian Film Commission and the Victorian Film Corporation" --Container.
Censorship classification: M.
Originally produced Melbourne : The Film House, 1978.
In English. no subtitles.
Nominated: Palm D'or - Cannes Film Festival (1978) -- Libraries AustraliaContents: Special features: Exclusive new widescreen telecine transfer; Featurette - interviews with key cast and crew including Fred Schepisi and Tommy Lewis; Interview with Tommy Lewis; Audio commentary with Fred Schepisi; Q&A session with Fred Schepisi and Geoffrey Rush filmed at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2008; Making us Blacksmiths - documentary on the casting of Aboriginal lead actors Tommy Lewis and Freddy Reynolds; Stills gallery; Theatrical trailerTechnical Details: PAL ; All regions.Credits: Director and producer, Fred Schepisi.Standard Number: 3000000069974Performer: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson, Angela Punch.
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CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE : (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978)
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Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIASource: ATPhysDes: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x18 cm + 1 transparency : col. ; 7 x 6 cmSubject: CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) Summary: One colour transparency relating to the film The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and one photograph of Jimmie (Tommy Lewis) striding through the bush.Notes: Black and white image donate by Brian McFarlane
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CILECT : list of important Australian films / compiled by Denny Lawrence [North Ryde, NSW?]: Australian Film and Television School, [1980?].
Call No: 675.1(94) LAWAuthor: Lawrence, Denny Source: ATPlace: [North Ryde, NSW?]Publisher: Australian Film and Television SchoolPubDate: [1980?]PhysDes: 60 leaves : 30 cmSubject: AUSTRALIAN FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL ; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919) ; ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Raymond Longford, 1920) ; GIRL OF THE BUSH, A (AT, Franklyn Barrett, 1921) ; KID STAKES, THE (AT, Tal Ordell, 1927) ; FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927) ; FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1940) ; OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946) ; SONS OF MATTHEW (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1949) ; BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953) ; WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) ; BETWEEN WARS (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1974) ; SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; PURE S (AT, Bert Deling, 1976) ; CADDIE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1976) ; DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1976) ; DON'S PARTY (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1976) ; F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977) ; NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979) ; PALM BEACH (AT, Albie Thoms, 1979) ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; ROBBERY UNDER ARMS (AT, Kenneth Brampton, 1920) ; DAD AND DAVE COME TO TOWN (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938) ; RATS OF TOBRUK, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1944) ; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955) ; THREE IN ONE (AT, Cecil Holmes, 1956) ; THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966) ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) ; CASTOR AND POLLUX (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1973) ; MOVING ON (AT, Richard Mason, 1974) ; PETERSEN (AT, Tim Burstall, 1974) ; LEISURE (AT, Bruce Petty, 1976) ; STORM BOY (AT, Henri Safran, 1976) ; GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977) ; LOVE LETTERS FROM TERALBA ROAD (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1977) ; SINGER AND THE DANCER, THE (AT, Gillian Amrstrong, 1977) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; MOUTH MUSIC (NZ, Gregor Nichlas, 1981) ; MOUTH TO MOUTH (AT, John Duigan, 1978) ; LAST TASMANIAN, THE (AT, Tom Haydon, 1978) ; NIGHT THE PROWLER, THE (AT, Jim Sharman, 1978) ; STEPPING OUT (AT, Chris Noonan, 1980) ; STIR (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1980) ; BEST FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: A list of important Australian films in two categories, films of aesthetic merit (list A), and films of historical or sociological importance (list B), with a brief synopsis of each.Notes: Reprinted October 1980Contents: Introduction -- Methodology -- Notes on revision -- Film acquisition -- Australian cinema history on film -- references; List - category A: The sentimental bloke (1919) -- On our selection (1920) -- A girl of the bush -- The kid stakes -- For the term of his natural life -- Forty thousand horsemen -- The overlanders -- Sons of Matthew -- Back of beyond -- Desert people -- Wake in fright -- Between wars -- Sunday too far away -- Picnic at Hanging Rock -- Pure S -- Caddie -- The Devil's playground -- Don's party -- F J Holden -- Newsfront -- Mad Max -- My brilliant career - Palm Beach - Breaker Morant; List - category B: Robbery under arms (1920) -- Dad and Dave come to town -- The Rats of Tobruk -- Jedda -- Three in one -- They're a weird mob -- The daventures of Barry McKenzie -- Where dead men lie -- Gentle strangers -- Castor and Pollux -- Moving on -- Petersen -- Leisure -- Storm boy -- All in the same boat -- The getting of wisdom -- Love letters from Teralba Road -- The singer and the dancer -- The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith -- Mouth to mouth -- The last Tasmanian -- The night the prowler -- Stepping out -- Stir
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Contemporary Australian cinema : an introduction / Jonathan Rayner Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Call No: 71(94) RAYAuthor: Rayner, Jonathan Source: UKPlace: ManchesterPublisher: Manchester University PressPubDate: 2000PhysDes: vi, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; FANTASTIC FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN FILM FINANCE CORPORATION ; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM ; SCHEPISI, FRED ; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994) ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977) ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; SIRENS (AT/UK, John Duigan, 1994) ; BETWEEN WARS (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1974) ; ODD ANGRY SHOT, THE (AT, Tom Jeffrey, 1979) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-199) and indexISBN: 0719053269 (hbk.); 0719053277 (pbk.); 0719053269LON: 22455173
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Critical business : the new Australian cinema in review / Sandra Hall Adelaide: Rigby, 1985.
Call No: 71(94) HALAuthor: Hall, Sandra, 1942 Place: AdelaidePublisher: RigbyPubDate: 1985PhysDes: 200 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; FILMOGRAPHIES. AUSTRALIA ; GENRES ; GENRES. AUSTRALIA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ROAD MOVIES ; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) ; BARRY MCKENZIE HOLDS HIS OWN (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1974) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; DON'S PARTY (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1976) ; CLUB, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; PUBERTY BLUES (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1981) ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; MONKEY GRIP (AT, Ken Cameron, 1982) ; WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) ; RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE, THE (AT, Philippe Mora, 1982) ; CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974) ; STORM BOY (AT, Henri Safran, 1976) ; PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983) ; MAD DOG MORGAN (AT, Philippe Mora, 1976) ; SQUIZZY TAYLOR (AT, Kevin Dobson, 1982) ; MAN FROM HONG KONG, THE (AT/HK, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; RAZORBACK (AT, Russell Mulcahy, 1984) ISBN: 0727020102 : $16.95 AustLON: anb72702010; 3401972
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Films vs real life : communicating Aboriginality in cinema and television in UTS Review (May 1997) vol.3 iss.1 p.160-182
Author: McKee, Alan PhysDes: Article; BibliographySubject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES ON TV ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES ON TV. AUSTRALIA ; GRANT, STAN ; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955) ; BLACKFELLAS (AT, James Ricketson, 1992) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; REAL LIFE [TV] (AT, 1988) Summary: The article suggests that while the medium of film has tended to search for an Aboriginality which looks 'right', television allows the racial identity of indigenous Australians to be understood in other ways.
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The life of Jimmy Governor / by Brian Davies Sydney: Ure Smith, 1979, c1978.
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Reconsidering Fred Schepisi's The change of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978): the screen adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel (1972) in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.2 p.191-207
Author: Wilson, Janet PhysDes: ArticleSubject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) Summary: Fred Schepisi's The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), a story of horrific violence caused by racial oppression, has a controversial place in the Australian social imaginary. As a raw narrative of a part-Aboriginal man's axe-murders of white women, the manhunt which followed, his eventual capture and death by hanging just after Australia achieved federation in 1900, the film was apparently constrained by the limited framework of representation of race relations available in the late 1970s. Audiences were left numbed by the image of a segregated society, the overpowering murder scenes and the disempowerment and downward spiral of Jimmie and his half brother Mort. Yet it has also been valued as a major film in the Australian new wave cinema and judged as ‘underestimated and overlooked’. This article approaches the film's mixed reception by re-examining it as a screen adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel, The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972), arguing that Schepisi used an expressionist cinematography to convert Keneally's ‘ironic epic’ (Hodge and Mishra 1990: 59) into a fatalistic tragedy. In reconsidering the film in terms of its era, the article shows how the Australian landscape becomes a site of problematic race relations, overturning the myth of ‘innocent settlement’ that is associated with films of the Australian Film Commission (AFC) genre, heralding post-Mabo films like Rabbit proof fence (Noyce, 2002), Ten canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006) and Jindabyne (Lawrence, 2007) whose stories and mise-en-scène acknowledge earlier traumas, inducing in viewers a belated shock of recognition (Collins and Davis 2004: 92).--ABSTRACT
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The screening of Australia : anatomy of a national cinema / Susan Dermody, Elizabeth Jacka Sydney: Currency Press, 1987-<1988.
Call No: 71(94) DER v.2Author: Dermody, Susan ; Jacka, Elizabeth Place: SydneyPublisher: Currency PressPubDate: 1987-<1988PhysDes: v. <1-2 > ; 21 cmSeries: Australian screen seriesSubject: BUDDY FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIA ; THEORY. AUSTRALIA ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. AUSTRALIA ; CLASS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; POLITICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SEX IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) ; CAREFUL HE MIGHT HEAR YOU (AT, Carl Schutz, 1983) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982) ; MY BROTHER JACK (AT, Gil Brealey, 1965) ; ALVIN PURPLE (AT, Tim Burstall, 1973) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; FAR EAST (AT, John Duigan, 1982) ; F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977) ; HEATWAVE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1981) ; KILLING OF ANGEL STREET, THE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1981) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978) ; PALM BEACH (AT, Albie Thoms, 1979) ; PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975) ; TOWN LIKE ALICE, A (AT, David Stevens, 1980) ; WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexISBN: 0861911876 (v. 2); 0868191876 (v. 2)LON: 5369777
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Words and images : Australian novels into film / Brian McFarlane Richmond, Vic.: Heinemann in association with Cinema Papers, 1983.
Call No: 753 MCFAuthor: McFarlane, Brian, 1934 Place: Richmond, Vic.Publisher: Heinemann in association with Cinema PapersPubDate: 1983PhysDes: vi, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS. AUSTRALIA ; WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977) ; MANGO TREE, THE (AT, Kevin Dobson, 1977) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979) ; MONKEY GRIP (AT, Ken Cameron, 1982) ; YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982) ; NIGHT OF THE PROWLER, THE (AT, Jim Sharman, 1978) ; LUCINDA BRAYFORD [TV] (AT, John Gauci, 1980) ; OUTBREAK OF LOVE [TV] (AT, Oscar Whitbread, 1981) Summary: Words and Images is the first Australian book to examine the relationship between literature and film. Taking nine major examples of recent films adapted from Australian novels - including The Getting of Wisdom, My Brilliant Career and The Year of Living Dangerously- he looks at some of the issues in transposing a narrative from one medium to the other. [Taken from BOOK JACKET]Notes: Includes bibliographical references and notesISBN: 0858593165 : $14.95 AustLON: dup85859316; 2746398
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You're earned it: Bryan Brown in Empire (Australian Ed.) (Jan/Feb 2001) iss.1 p.72-73
PhysDes: ArticleSubject: BROWN, BRYAN ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978) ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; EMPTY BEACH, THE (AT, Chris Thomson, 1985) ; F/X (US, Robert Mandel, 1986) ; COCKTAIL (US, Roger Donaldson, 1988) ; BLOOD OATH (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1990) ; DEAD HEART (AT, Nick Parsons, 1996) ; TWO HANDS (AT, Gregor Jordan, 1999) Summary: Interview and review on Bryan Brown's career.
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