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Author: Schwartz, Eric
PhysDes: Article
Subject: 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 with
Notes: "Annie's Coming Out" is also known by its US title "A Test of Love"

Call No: 71(94) BAR
Author: Barber, Susan
Edition: 2023
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
PubDate: 9 Feb 2023
PhysDes: 280 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA; MOTHERS IN FILMS; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); BACKROADS (AT, Philip Noyce, 1977); CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); DON'S PARTY (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1976); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); HIGH TIDE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1987); MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER II, THE (AT, Geoff Burrowes, 1988); MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); TRACKER, THE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2002); WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD (AT, Ned Lander, 1981)
Summary: The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces – artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological – that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement. This engaging new study brings fresh perspectives, insights, and innovative approaches to a variety of films from a diversity of filmmakers. Areas of focus include the complex and contentious subjects of masculinity, femininity and feminism, the maternal, as well as the Indigenous road film and the protean Australian gothic. During the formative years of the revival, Australian films seemed to emerge from out of the blue in terms of global film history, with many features including Picnic at Hanging Rock (l975), Caddie (l976), The Last Wave (l977), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (l978), and My Brilliant Career (l979) receiving international distribution and enthusiastic critical acclaim with strong box office results. By the time the film revival was in full swing, not only did Australian audiences flock to theaters to see “homegrown” films, but the quantity of Australian films on overseas screens was so high that ardent critics declared this outpouring an Australian “New Wave.” The eyes of the world had turned to a compelling and largely unknown culture. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781501390029
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- In Memory Of -- Introduction -- 1. The Ocker: Chauvinistic and Oedipal -- 2. Alternate Masculinities of Paul Cox and John Duigan -- 3. Historical Women and the Bush -- 4. Negligent, Runaway, and Abject Mothers -- 5. The Indigenous Road Film -- 6. Australian Gothic -- Index

Call No: N79CHA KEN
Author: Keneally, Thomas
Source: AT
Place: [Sydney]
Publisher: Fontana
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: 178 p. ; 18 cm
Subject: CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978)
Notes: Originally published: London: Angus and Robertson, 1972.
ISBN: 0006145086
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 79CHA REY
Author: Reynolds, Henry
Place: Sydney and Canberra
Publisher: Currency Press and the Australian Film Commission
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 80 p. : ports. ; 19 cm
Series: Australian Screen Classics
Subject: 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.-Blurb
Notes: Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Motion picture) directed by Fred Schepisi. Bibliography: p.76-78.
ISBN: 9780868198248
Language: English
Contents: 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

Call No: D The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Edition: 30th Anniversary collectors edition.
Place: Australia
Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 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 Australia
Contents: 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 trailer
Technical Details: PAL ; All regions.
Credits: Director and producer, Fred Schepisi.
Standard Number: 3000000069974
Performer: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson, Angela Punch.

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978)

Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIA
Source: AT
PhysDes: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x18 cm + 1 transparency : col. ; 7 x 6 cm
Subject: 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

Call No: 675.1(94) LAW
Author: Lawrence, Denny
Source: AT
Place: [North Ryde, NSW?]
Publisher: Australian Film and Television School
PubDate: [1980?]
PhysDes: 60 leaves : 30 cm
Subject: 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] 40,000 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 1980
Contents: 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

Call No: 71(94) RAY
Author: Rayner, Jonathan
Source: UK
Place: Manchester
Publisher: Manchester University Press
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: vi, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: 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; 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 index
ISBN: 0719053269 (hbk.); 0719053277 (pbk.); 0719053269
LON: 22455173

Call No: 71(94) HAL
Author: Hall, Sandra, 1942
Place: Adelaide
Publisher: Rigby
PubDate: 1985
PhysDes: 200 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
Subject: 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 Aust
LON: anb72702010; 3401972

Call No: 81 SCH MCF
Author: McFarlane, Brian
Edition: 2022
Place: Jackson
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
PhysDes: xii, 180 pages : illustrated ; 22cm
Subject: SCHEPISI, FRED; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); CRY IN THE DARK, A (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1988) SEE EVIL ANGELS; LAST ORDERS (UK, Fred Schepisi, 2001)
Summary: Fred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. The Films of Fred Schepisi traces the lead-up to his critical successes in feature filmmaking, via his earlier award-winning success as a producer in advertising commercials in the 1960s and the setting up of his own company. Unlike some directors, he derived from this experience a sure sense of the commercial aspects of filmmaking, as well as its aesthetic considerations. The volume also considers stories of his early education in a Catholic seminary, which he drew on in his semiautobiographical film, The Devil’s Playground, the success of which launched him as an exciting new feature director. The volume expands on Schepisi’s success story to chart his development as a director in demand in other countries, notably in the US and the UK, as well as continuing to make major films in Australia. Brian McFarlane argues that Schepisi’s career is symptomatic of Australian directors who have made their presences felt on the international stage. Whereas other key directors of the Australian film revival, such as Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford, have been the subject of book-length critical studies, Schepisi’s career has not to-date been so explored. McFarlane takes a critical account of Schepisi’s film output—including such standouts as The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Plenty, Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation, Mr. Baseball, and Last Orders—and he augments analysis with interviews with the director. By discussing the production histories and both critical and popular receptions, McFarlane’s study shines a new light on Schepisi’s work and his rise to prominence in the global film industry. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781496835307

Author: McKee, Alan
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS 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.

Call No: 79CHA DAV
Author: Davies, Brian
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Ure Smith
PubDate: 1979, c1978
PhysDes: 128 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 18 cm
Subject: CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978)
Notes: 'The true story behind The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith' - t.p.
ISBN: 072540471X

Author: Wilson, Janet
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS 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

Call No: 71(94) DER v.2
Author: Dermody, Susan; Jacka, Elizabeth
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Currency Press
PubDate: 1987-<1988
PhysDes: v. <1-2 > ; 21 cm
Series: Australian screen series
Subject: 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 Schultz, 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 index
ISBN: 0861911876 (v. 2); 0868191876 (v. 2)
LON: 5369777

Call No: P CHA
Place: Australia
PhysDes: 1 poster : colour ; 97 x 102 cm
Subject: CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978)
Summary: Image: Profile of Tommy Lewis looking to the right. Image: Stylised drawing of an axe with dripping blood. Text: "The chant of the underdog"
Notes: Poster in good condition. Discoloured along folds.

Call No: 753 MCF
Author: McFarlane, Brian, 1934
Place: Richmond, Vic.
Publisher: Heinemann in association with Cinema Papers
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: vi, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 notes
ISBN: 0858593165 : $14.95 Aust
LON: dup85859316; 2746398

PhysDes: Article
Subject: 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.