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journal article		101 Movies that changed the world! : #47, Picnic at Hanging Rock in Empire (Australian Ed.) (September 2003) iss.30 p.75 Author: Michael Adams PhysDes: Article Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Summary: Listed in 'movies that changed the world' why it was listed and what it inspired More info
book		Antipodean gothic cinema [manuscript] : a study of the (postmodern) Gothic in Australian and New Zealand film since the 1970s / by Romana Ashton Queensland: 2005. Call No: 735.2 (93) ASH Author: Ashton, Romana Source: AT Place: Queensland PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 317 p. ; 30 cm Subject: HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HORROR FILMS. NEW ZEALAND; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); DOGS IN SPACE (AT, Richard Lowenstein, 1986); BAD BOY BUBBY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1993); NIGHT THE PROWLER, THE (AT, Jim Sharman, 1978); HEAVENLY CREATURES (NZ, Peter Jackson, 1994); WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971); SUMMERFIELD (AT, Ken Hannam, 1977); SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981); CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974) Summary: "Although various film critics and academics have located the Gothic in Antipodean cinema, there has been no in-depth study of the Gothic and its ideological entanglements with postmodernism within this cinema. This study is divided into two parts and locates the (postmodern) Gothic in twelve Australian/New Zealand films ranging from Ted Kotcheffs Wake in Fright (1971) to Peter Jacksons Heavenly Creatures (1994). Part one theorizes the Gothic as a subversive cultural mode that foreshadows postmodernism in terms of its antithetical relationship with Enlightenment ideals. Interconnections are made between proto-postmodern aspects of early Gothic literature and the appropriation and intensification of these aspects in what has been dubbed the postmodern Gothic. The dissertation then argues that the Antipodes was/is constructed through Euro-centric discourse(s) as a Gothic/(proto)-postmodern space or place, this construction manifest in, and becoming intertwined with the postmodern in post 1970s Antipodean cinema. In part two, a cross-section of Australian/New Zealand films is organized into cinematic sub-genres in line with their similar thematic preoccupations and settings, all films argued as reflecting a marked postmodern Gothic sensibility. In its conclusion, the study finds that S2Antipodean Gothic cinemaS3, particularly since the 1970s, can be strongly characterized by its combining of Gothic/postmodernist modes of representation, this convergence constitutive of a postmodernized version of the Gothic which is heavily influenced by Euro-centric constructions of the Antipodes in Gothic/(proto)-postmodern related terms. " - ABSTRACT Notes: Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy) - Central Queensland University: School of Humanities - Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education, December 2005; Bibliography: leaves 299-314 ; filmography: leaves 315-318 ; telegraphy: leaf 319; We have two copies of this Thesis - they are both filed at 735.2 (93) ASH and are identical. One is labelled 'copy 1' and the other 'copy 2' Contents: -- Part one: Theorizing the (postmodern) gothic in Antipodean cinema -- 1. A gothic/postmodern poetics: two convergent models. -- 2. Antipodean Gothic/(Proto)-postmodern connections: the European unconscious and the cultural construction of the Antipodes. -- 3. Antipodean cinema: an uneasy background -- Part two: analyzing the (postmodern) gothic in Antipodean cinema. -- 4. Anitpodean ccolonial gothic: 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' and 'The Piano'. -- 5. Anitpodean urban gothic: 'Dogs in Space' and 'Bad Boy Bubby'. -- 6. Antipodean surburban gothic: -- 'The Night the Prowler' and 'Heavenly Creatures'. -- 7. Antipodean rural gothic: 'Wake in Fright', 'Summerfield', and 'Shame'. -- 8. Antipodean sci-fi car crash films and the gothic: 'The Cars that Ate Paris', 'Mad Max', and 'Mad Max - The Road Warrior'. -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Teleography. ID2: 290 More info
book		The Australian film revival : 1970s, 1980s, and beyond / Susan Barber New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 9 Feb 2023. 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 More info
book		Australian film theory and criticism : Volume 3 / By Verevis, Constantine and Williams, Deane United Kingdom: Intellect, 2018. Call No: 67(94) VER Author: By Verevis, Constantine and Williams, Deane Place: United Kingdom Publisher: Intellect PubDate: 2018 Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND TELEVISION FUND; BIRTLES, FRANCIS; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946); FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA; MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985); CHAUVEL, CHARLES ISBN: 9781783208371 More info
book		Australian gothic : a cinema of horror / Jonathan Rayner Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022. Call No: 735.2(94) RAY Author: Rayner, Jonathan Edition: 2022 Place: Cardiff Publisher: University of Wales Press PubDate: 2022 PhysDes: x, 294 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm Series: Gothic Literary Studies Subject: HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); DYING BREED (AT, Jody Dwyer, 2008); KILLING GROUND (AT, Damien Power, 2016); LOST GULLY ROAD (AT, Donna McRae, 2017); LOVED ONES, THE (AT, Sean Byrne, 2009); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MYSTERY ROAD (AT Ivan Sen, 2013); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); WOLF CREEK (AT, Greg McLean, 2005); WOLF CREEK 2 (AT, Greg Mclean, 2013) Summary: The term ‘Gothic’ has been applied to examples of Australian cinema since the 1970s, often in arbitrary and divergent ways. This book examines a wide range of Australian films to trace their Gothic resemblances, characteristics and meanings. By concentrating on the occurrence of Gothic motifs, characters, landscapes and narratives, it argues for the recognition and relevance of a coherent Gothic heritage in Australian film. A plethora of Gothic representatives are considered in relation to four consistent and illuminating continuities (images of the family, ideas of monstrosity, generic hybridity and the occurrence of the sublime), and this study debates the appearance and asserts the significance of Australian Gothic films within their national, cultural, literary and cinematic traditions. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781786838896 Contents: List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Familiarity -- Monstrosity -- Hybridity -- Sublimity -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index More info
book		CILECT : list of important Australian films / compiled by Denny Lawrence [North Ryde, NSW?]: Australian Film and Television School, [1980?]. 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 More info
newspaper article		The classic movie in Sunday Age [Inside Out] (25/3/2018) p.10 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Author: Paul Byrnes PhysDes: Clippings File_Article Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Summary: Conventional review of the classic More info
book		Contemporary Australian cinema : an introduction / Jonathan Rayner Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 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 More info
book		Contemporary cinema / John Orr Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c1998. Call No: 62 ORR Author: Orr, John, 1943 Place: Edinburgh Publisher: Edinburgh University Press PubDate: c1998 PhysDes: xi,243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: CANADA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA; DOUBLES IN FILMS; EXPRESSIONISM; FILM NOIR; POLAND; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; ALLEN, WOODY; ALTMAN, ROBERT; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BEATTY, WARREN; BELMONDO, JEAN-PAUL; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BINOCHE, JULIETTE; BONNAIRE, SANDRINE; BURTON, TIM; CAGE, NICOLAS; CAMPION, JANE; CHABROL, CLAUDE; CHEUNG, LESLIE; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; COSTNER, KEVIN; CRONENBERG, DAVID; DAHL, JOHN; DE NIRO, ROBERT; DE PALMA, BRIAN; DERN, LAURA; EGOYAN, ATOM; FIGGIS, MIKE; GERE, RICHARD; GONG, LI; GREENAWAY, PETER; HAUER, RUTGER; JAMESON, FREDRIC; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF; LYNCH, DAVID; MALICK, TERRENCE; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; ROSSELLINI, ISABELLA; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SCOTT, RIDLEY; STONE, OLIVER; TRAN, ANH HUNG; WEIR, PETER; Wenders, Wim; WONG KAR-WAI; YOUNG, SEAN; ZHANG, YIMOU; ANDERSSON, BIBI; AUDRAN, STEPHANE; DUVALL, SHELLY; GIDLEY, PAMELA; JANDA, KRYSTYNA; KANESHIRO, TANESHI; LEUNG, TONY; LIN, BRIGITTE; KROTKI FILM O MILOSCI (PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988); KILL ME AGAIN (US, John Dahl, 1989); DAYS OF BEING WILD [AH FEI ZHENG ZHUANG] (HK, Wong Kar-Wei, 1991); WINGS OF DESIRE [HIMMEL UBER BERLIN, DER] (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1987); ADJUSTER, THE (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1991); BELLE NOISEUSE, LA (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1991); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, THE (NE/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1989); DAYS OF HEAVEN (US, Terrence Malick, 1978); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994); LIEBESTRAUM (US, Mike Figgis, 1991); MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971); CZLOWIEK Z MARMURA (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1977); ONE FALSE MOVE (US, Carl Franklin, 1991); PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980); DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991); DESERTO ROSSO, IL (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964); SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980); STALKER (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979); TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (FR, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993); TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (US, David Lynch, 1992); WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990); CYCLO [XICH LO] (FR/V, Tran Anh Hung, 1995) Summary: "'Contemporary cinema' is a major study of key developments in the cinema over the last thirty years. It reworks Pasolini's landmark concept of 'the cinema of poetry' to look at the transformation of film form in its encounter with society, the sacred, the subjective and the presence of the camera. In the 1970s, the influential forms of a cinema of poetry are analysed in key features by Altman, Herzog, Malick, Scorsese, Weir, Von Trotta and Tarkovsky while in the 1980s and 1990s the emergence of new filmmakers has meant a diffusion of different cinemas of poetry using new techniques and new poetries. Of key importance here is the work of Kieslowski, Lynch, Egoyan, Campion, Greenaway, Zhang Yimou, Tran Anh Hung and Wong Kar-Wai, as well as the reinvention of science fiction and film noir in American genre." Taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0748608362(pbk.) : No price LON: 13772409 ID2: 291 More info
book		Critical business : the new Australian cinema in review / Sandra Hall Adelaide: Rigby, 1985. 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 More info
book		Dreams within a dream : the films of Peter Weir / Michael Bliss Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, c2000. Call No: 81WEI BLI Author: Bliss, Michael, 1947 Place: Carbondale, Ill. Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press PubDate: c2000 PhysDes: x, 242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: WEIR, PETER; CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974); DEAD POETS SOCIETY (US, Peter Weir, 1989); FEARLESS (US, Peter Weir, 1993); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); LAST WAVE, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1977); MOSQUITO COAST, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1986); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); PLUMBER, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1980); TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998); WITNESS (US, Peter Weir, 1985); YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982) Notes: Filmography: p. 195-200; Includes bibliographical references (201-232) and index ISBN: 0809322846 (alk. paper) LON: 20076199 More info
book		An Examination of Australian cultural identity as depicted in four Australian films : The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Alvin Purple, Sunday too far away and Picnic at Hanging Rock / by Sue Ramadan Kensington, NSW : [s.n.], 1976: Call No: 408.1(94) RAM Author: Ramadan, Sue Place: Kensington, NSW : [s.n.], 1976 PhysDes: [79 leaves] ; 30 cm Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975); ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); ALVIN PURPLE (AT, Tim Burstall, 1973) LON: abn98366333; 14228501 More info
journal article		Festival of Oz films at the Trak in Australasian Cinema (6/8/1982) vol.11 iss.14 p.2 PhysDes: Article Subject: GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); PUBERTY BLUES (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1981); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); CADDIE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1976); NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); KILLING OF ANGEL STREET, THE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1981); REMOVALISTS, THE (AT, Tom Jeffrey, 1975); MAD DOG MORGAN (AT, Philippe Mora, 1976); DON'S PARTY (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1976); MANGO TREE, THE (AT, Kevin Dobson, 1977); STARSTRUCK (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1982); CLUB, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; FESTIVALS Summary: Article on Sydney theatre The Trak running an 'Austrailan Film' Film Festival. More info
Interim book		The film cultures reader / Graeme Turner (ed.) New York: Routledge, 2002. Call No: 408 TUR Author: Graeme Turner (ed.) Place: London; New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: 524 p. ; 24 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; AESTHETICS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SOUND; THEORY; CREED, BARBARA; KUHN, ANNETTE; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; USA; MONROE, MARILYN; SEX IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; ACTION FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; THRILLERS; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM Summary: This companion reader to Film as Social Practice brings together key writings on contemporary cinema, exploring film as a social and cultural phenomenon. Key features of the reader include: thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor; a general introduction by Graeme Turner; sections on understanding film, film technology, film industries, meanings and pleasures, identities, audiences and consumption. ISBN: 0415252822 More info
Online resource book		The lost child complex in Australian film : Jung, story and playing beneath the past / Terrie Waddell Abingdon, Oxon : New York: Routledge, 2019. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required) Call No: 11378 Author: Waddell, Terrie Edition: 2019 Place: Abingdon, Oxon : New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2019 PhysDes: vii, 162 pages ; 24 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); BEAUTIFUL KATE (AT, Rachel Ward, 2009); CHILD ABUSE; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; FRAN (AT, Glenda Hambly, 1985); LION (AT, Garth Davis, 2016); MANGANINNIE (AT, John Honey, 1980); ORANGES AND SUNSHINE (UK/AT, Jim Loach, 2011); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); ROMULUS, MY FATHER (AT, Richard Roxburgh, 2007); SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING, THE (AT, Richard Flanagan, 1998); WINFREY, OPRAH Summary: Waddell explores ‘the lost child’ in its many manifestations, as an element of the individual and collective psyche, historically related to the trauma of colonisation and war, and as key theme in Australian cinema from the industry’s formative years to the present day. The films discussed in textual depth transcend literal lost in the bush mythologies, or actual cases of displaced children, to focus on vulnerable children renderedlost through government and institutional practices, and adult/parental characters developmentally arrested by comforting or traumatic childhood memories. The victory/winning fixation governing the USA – diametrically opposed to the lost child motif – is also discussed as a comparative example of the mesmerising nature of the cultural complex. Examining iconic characters and events, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and Trump’s presidency, and films such as The Babadook, Lion, and Predestination, this book scrutinises the way in which a culture talks to itself, about itself. This analysis looks beyond the melancholy traditionally ascribed to the lost child, by arguing that the repetitive and prolific imagery that this theme stimulates, can be positive and inspiring. The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film is a unique and compelling work which will be highly relevant for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, cultural studies, screen and media studies. It will also appeal to Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists as well as readers with a broader interest in Australian history and politics. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781138939691 More info
Old collection book		Masterpieces on film : a guide to films for study in English classes / Charles MacFarland Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1985. Call No: 53:820 MAC Author: MacFarland, Charles Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: Longman Cheshire PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 172 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: TEACHING MATERIALS; ADAPTATIONS; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); WALKABOUT (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1971); WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Byron Haskin, 1953); TIME MACHINE, THE (US, George Pal, 1960); TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE (IT/US, Franco Zefferelli, 1967); ROMEO AND JULIET (UK/IT, Franco Zeffirelli, 1968); CHARLY (US, Ralph Nelson, 1968); ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (US, Milos Forman, 1975); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); MURPHY'S WAR (UK, Peter Yates, 1971); STING, THE (US, George Roy Hill, 1973); BREAKING AWAY (US, Peter Yates, 1979); BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ISBN: 0582872200 More info
book		Metaphors of femininity and the landscape in Australian cinema : five 'New Wave' films / Robin Wright 1992. Call No: 626:396(94) WRI Author: Wright, Robin, 1963 PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: 110 leaves : col. ill. ; 30 cm Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982); SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975); WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); PLAINS OF HEAVEN, THE (AT, Ian Pringle, 1982) Summary: This thesis examins the representation of the Australian landscape in five Australian films released between 1975 and 1982. The films are 'The Man From Snowy River', 'Sunday Too Far Away', 'We of the Never Never', 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' and 'The Plains of Heaven'. These five texts are examined in light of feminist theories dealing with subjectivity and representation. The analysis of the place and role of femininity within the texts is conducted through the examination of symbols and metaphors associated with the landscape which operate within the film structure. The thesis concludes that the Australian landscape is constructed within these films in such a way as to support the concept of a white, masculine Australian identity..." -- taken from summary Notes: Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Centre for Womens Studies; Summary: [unpaged] at front of text; Typescript; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-110) LON: abn93171145; 10039377 Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Feminist strategies -- 3. The production context -- 4. The man from Snowy River -- 5. Sunday too far away -- 6. We of the never never -- 7. Picnic at hanging rock -- 8. The plains of heaven -- 9. Ideological position and Australian identity More info
book		The mystical gaze of the cinema : the films of Peter Weir / by Richard Leonard Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2009. Call No: 81WEI LEO Author: Leonard, Richard Source: AT Place: Carlton, Victoria Publisher: Melbourne University Press PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: ix, 300 p. ; 29 cm Series: MUP academic monographs Subject: AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM; THEORY; GAZE IN FILMS; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; RELIGION IN FILMS; WEIR, PETER; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); WITNESS (US, Peter Weir, 1985) Summary: "The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema is a meticulous and accessible book that uses a psychoanalytic approach incorporating the insights of Jung, film theory and theology to break new ground in what continues to be a hot topic in cinema studies: the spectator-screen relationship. Leonard provides a fresh, innovative and provocative perspective on what happens when we behold a film." -- Publisher description Notes: Includes index; Derived from author's dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Melbourne, 2003; Bibliography: p. 261-292; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://www.mup.edu.au ISBN: 9780522856620 Contents: -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- 1 the mystical gaze -- 2 the unseen gaze -- 3 defining the codes within the mystical gaze -- 4 an apprehension of mysticism: Peter Weir -- 5 Picnic at Hanging Rock -- 6 Gallipoli -- 7 Witness -- conclusions -- notes -- filmography -- bibliography -- index -- More info
book		No picnic : an autobiography / Patricia Lovell Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1995. Call No: 81LOV LOV Author: Lovell, Patricia Place: Sydney Publisher: Pan Macmillan PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: xiii, 321 p. : ill., ports ; 24 cm Subject: Lovell, Patricia; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); MONKEY GRIP (AT, Ken Cameron, 1982); BREAK OF DAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1976) Notes: CIP confirmed ISBN: 073290823X LON: 11510226 More info
book		Peter Weir : when cultures collide / Marek Haltof New York: Twayne, 1996. Call No: 81WEI HAL Author: Haltof, Marek Place: New York Publisher: Twayne PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: xviii, 174 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Series: Twayne's filmmakers series Subject: WEIR, PETER; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982); DEAD POETS SOCIETY (US, Peter Weir, 1989); LAST WAVE, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1977); WITNESS (US, Peter Weir, 1985); MOSQUITO COAST, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1986); GREEN CARD (AT/FR, Peter Weir, 1990); FEARLESS (US, Peter Weir, 1993) Summary: During the course of his twenty-odd-year filmmaking career, Peter Weir has accomplished what so many of his protagonists have failed to do: he has become an accepted, integral part of an unfamiliar culture. At the core of most of his films and at the least peripheral to all of them is the idea of the outsider trying - and ultimately failing - to come to terms with a culture vastly different from his own. Weir, a native of Australia whose name was synonymous with Australian cinema in the 1970s, turned to American filmmaking in the 1980s and never looked back. In Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide, Marek Haltof traces Weir's journey from intensely Australian filmmaker to successful Hollywood director, along the way finding surprisingly consistent evidence of Weir's thematic and visual interests despite dramatic changes in his choices of story and locale Notes: Filmography: p. 158-167; Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-157) and index ISBN: 0805792449 (paper : alk paper); 0805778438 (cloth : alk paper) Order Received: 1997 LON: 96027580; 12664203 More info
Online resource book		Peter Weir : a creative journey from Australia to Hollywood / by Serena Formica Bristol ; Chicago: Intellect Books, 2012. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required) Call No: 81WEI FOR Author: Formica, Serena Source: US Place: Bristol ; Chicago Publisher: Intellect Books PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: vii, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: AUTEUR THEORY; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA : NEW SOUTH WALES; WEIR, PETER; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982); WITNESS (US, Peter Weir, 1985); TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998) Summary: "The cinematic output of Australian director Peter Weir has garnered numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim-from his early short films of the 1970s to the Hollywood hits he's helmed since 1985, including the likes of Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander. Drawing on contemporary concepts from transnational cinema studies, this book investigates Weir's entire three-decade career, paying particular attention to his journey from his native Sydney, with its largely auteur-driven national cinema, to the miltimillion-dollar Hollywood film industry with its many genre conventions. Along the way, the author explores a host of questions accompanying this move, including Weir's status as a transnational filmmaker and a more generalised discussion of the critically controversial idea of the auteur. Rounding out this volume are interviews with leading Hollywood filmmakers who discuss Weir's work."-BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-193) and filmography (p. 195-202) ISBN: 9781841504773 Contents: -- acknowldegments -- Introduction -- Migrations and transnationalism in the cinema -- Perspectives on Peter Weir -- Australian production context in the 1970s and early 1980s -- Peter Weir's four key steps from Australia to Hollywood -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1: Filmography - main credits -- Appendix 2: Films made in Hollywood by Australian directors -- URL status: URL: 'https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/detail.action?docID=1069409' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:22:51 PM Status: Moved Details: HTTP status 302 - Moved temporarily More info
book		Peter Weir : interviews / edited by John C. Tibbetts ; foreword by David Thomson Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. Call No: 81WEI PET Author: Tibbetts, John C; Thomson, David Source: US Place: Jackson, Mississippi Publisher: University Press of Mississippi PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: xlii, 261 pages ; 24 cm Series: Conversations with filmmakers series Subject: ADAPTATIONS; AUTEUR THEORY; DIRECTORS; EDITING; INTERVIEWING; REALITY TV; WAR IN FILMS; WEIR, PETER; BOYD, RUSSELL; CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974); DEAD POETS SOCIETY (US, Peter Weir, 1989); FEARLESS (US, Peter Weir, 1993); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); GREEN CARD (AT/FR, Peter Weir, 1990); HOMESDALE (AT, Peter Weir, 1971); LAST WAVE, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1977); MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (US, Peter Weir, 2003); MOSQUITO COAST, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1986); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); PLUMBER, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1980); TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998); WAY BACK, THE (US, Peter Weir, 2010); WITNESS (US, Peter Weir, 1985); YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982) Summary: 'Peter Weir: Interviews' is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject. [...] Interviews discuss Weir's diverse and impressive range of work - his earlier films 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', 'The Last Wave', 'Gallipoli', and 'The Year of Living Dangerously', as well as Academy Award-nominated 'Witness', 'Dead Poets Society', 'Green Card', 'The Truman Show', and 'Master and Commander'. This book confirms the trajectory of Weir's life and work parallels and embodies Australia's quest to define and express a historical and cultural identity." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes chronology and filmography for Peter Weir's work; includes index ISBN: 9781617038976 Contents: Foreword by David Thomson -- Introduction: "unmet friends": encounters with Peter Weir -- Chronology -- Filmography -- Peter Weir: reclaiming a Sydney boyhood: John C. Tibbetts / 2012 -- Peter Weir: snapshots in time: John C. Tibbetts / 2012 -- Peter Weir: early days: Sue Mathews / 1985 -- Small screens and big screens: television and film: Graham Shirley / 1991 -- The first features: 'The Cars That Ate Paris: Tom Hogan / 1973 -- "Weir, weird, and weirder still": the riddle of Hanging Rock: David Castell / 1976 -- Years of living dangerously: 'The Last Wave', 'The Plumber', 'Gallipoli', 'The Year of Living Dangerously': Sue Mathews / 1985 -- Interview with Peter Weir: Luisa Ceretto and Andrea Morini / 1999 -- Peter Weir: master of unease: Terry Dowling and George Mannix / 1980 -- Towards the center: Tom Ryan and Brian McFarlane / 1981 -- The swizzle stick: Peter Weir and Hollywood genres: Jonathan Rayner / 1993 -- The iceman cometh: 'Mosquito Coast': Digby Diehl / 1986 -- 'Fearless': the poetry of apocalypse: John C. Tibbetts / 1993 -- Poetry man: 'Dead Poets Society': Nancy Griffin -- Weir's worlds: 'The Truman Show': Virginia Campbell -- This is your life: 'The Truman Show': Eric Rudolph / 1998 -- He's fought his own way back to work: Terence Rafferty / 2011 -- "I am your eyes": interviews with Russell Boyd, ACS, ASC: John C. Tibbetts / 2012 -- Appendix: Notes on 'Gallipoli -- Interview with executive producer Francis O'Brien -- Peter Weir's Anzac lecture -- additional sources -- index More info
Online resource digital clippings file		PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK : (AT, Peter Wier, 1975) Digital clippings file available Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings; Stills; Press kit Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/T/PICNIC_AT_HANGING_ROCK.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:43:40 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Picnic at Hanging Rock : a film / [by] Cliff Green ; photographs by David Kynoch Melbourne: Cheshire, 1975. Call No: 79PIC GRE Author: Green, Cliff, 1934; Kynoch, David, photographer; Lindsay, Joan, 1896-1984. Picnic at Hanging Rock Place: Melbourne Publisher: Cheshire PubDate: 1975 PhysDes: xxiv,110p. : ill. ; 25cm Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Notes: Australian cinema films: "Picnic at Hanging Rock'. Shooting scripts (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0048968); From the novel by Joan Lindsay, first published, 1967 ISBN: 0701521988 : $3.95 Aust LON: 1635993 More info
book		Picnic at hanging rock / Joan Lindsay Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin Books, 1967. Call No: N79PIC LIN Author: Lindsay, Joan Source: AT Place: Ringwood, Vic. Publisher: Penguin Books PubDate: 1967 PhysDes: 213 p. ; 19cm Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Notes: Fiction ISBN: 0140031499 More info
journal article		Picnic At Hanging Rock in Empire (Australian Ed.) (November 2004) iss.44 p.114 Author: Michael Adams PhysDes: Article Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Summary: D.V.D. review of Picnic At Hanging Rock More info
book		Picnic at Hanging Rock / Anna Backman Rogers London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on behalf of British Film Institute, 2022. Call No: 79 PIC ROG Author: Rogers, Anna Backman Edition: 2022 Place: London Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on behalf of British Film Institute PubDate: 2022 PhysDes: 103 pages : illustrated Series: BFI film classics Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Summary: Peter Weir's haunting and allusive Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new Australian cinema, seen as exemplary of a peculiarly Australian style of heritage filmmaking. Anna Backman Rogers' study considers Picnic from feminist, psychoanalytic and decolonialising perspectives, exploring its setting in a colonised Australian bushland in which the Aboriginal people are a spectral presence in a landscape stolen from them in pursuit of the white man's 'terra nullius'. She delves into the film's production history, addressing director Weir's influences and preoccupations at the time of its making, its reception and its lasting impact on visual culture more broadly. Rogers addresses the film's treatment of the young schoolgirls and their teachers, seemingly, as embodiments of an archetype of the 'eternal feminine', as objects of the male gaze, and in terms of ideas about female hysteria as a protest against gender norms. She argues that Picnic is, in fact, highly subversive: a film that requires its viewers to read its seductive surfaces against the grain of the image in order to uncover its psychological depths. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781839023354 Contents: Acknowledgments -- 1 Within a Dream: Origins, Production and Filming -- 2 Waiting a Million Years Just for Us: Artistic Influences and Uncanny Spaces -- 3 Quite Intact: The Male Imaginary and Courtly Love -- Conclusion: Girls on the Verge; Femininity and Hysteria -- Notes -- Credits More info
dvd		Picnic at Hanging Rock [DVD] : director's cut : a film / by Peter Weir [Australia]: Umbrella Entertainment, 2004. Call No: D Picnic at Hanging Rock Edition: 2 disc collectors edition Source: AT Place: [Australia] Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 2 videodiscs (DVD) (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Summary: In 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls and their teacher prepare for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Three of the students and a teacher disappear mysteriously and are never found. Notes: From the novel by Joan Lindsay. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975. DAVID0462. "A McElroy and McElroy production, in association with Patricia Lovell" -- Container. Filmed with the South Australian Film Corporation and B.E.F. Distributors. Censorship classification: PG. single case, col. slick ; Marcom Projects Pty Ltd ; 88SIR0462. English. Contents: Disc 1. Director's cut. Disc 2. Special features: Widescreen director's cut -- A dream within a dream (120 min.) -- A recollection -- Hanging Rock 1900 (25 min.) -- Joan Lindsay interview -- Short recollections -- Hanging Rock and Martindale Hall: then and now -- Trailer collection -- Still and poster gallery -- The day of Saint Valentine. Technical Details: Region all, PAL. Credits: Directed by Peter Weir ; screenplay by Cliff Green ; produced by McElroy and McElroy with Patricia Lovell. Also Titled: A dream within a dream Standard Number: 9322225026780 Performer: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver. More info
still		[Picnic at Hanging Rock : stills file] Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIA Source: AT PhysDes: 4 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 17 - 17 x 22 cm ; 2 photographs : col. ; 16 x 16 - 21 x 21 cm Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Summary: 4 black and white and 2 colour photographs of scenes from the film. Notes: 2 images donated by Brian McFarlane More info
title clippings file		PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK [TV] : (AT, 2017 -) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK [TV](AT, 2017 -) More info
book		The projected muse : extracts from six Australian film scripts / [compiled by] Peter McFarlane Adelaide: Rigby, 1977. Call No: 792 PRO Author: McFarlane, Peter, 1940-, comp Place: Adelaide Publisher: Rigby PubDate: 1977 PhysDes: viii,133p. : ill. ; 23cm Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); CADDIE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1976); STORM BOY (AT, Henri Safran, 1976); DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1976); CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974); FOURTH WISH, THE (AT, Don Chaffey, 1976) ISBN: 072700560X : $4.95 Aust LON: 1361887 More info
newspaper article		Rock of ages in Saturday Age [Good Weekend Magazine] (1/04/2017) p.14 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Author: McCulloch, Janelle PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Summary: Lengthy article about the novel Picnic and Hanging Rock and the subsequent film More info
book		The screening of Australia : anatomy of a national cinema / Susan Dermody, Elizabeth Jacka Sydney: Currency Press, 1987-<1988. 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 More info
newspaper article		Short cuts : Picnic unrest in Sydney Morning Herald (03/11/2016) p.20 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE in production; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK [TV](AT, 2017 -) Author: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORS GUILD; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK [TV](AT, 2017 -) Summary: Report on the row over the upcoming PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK remake for TV. Production company FremantleMedia is looking to hire a foreign director for some of the episodes, which has angered the Australian Directors Guild Notes: similar article in The Age same date More info
book		Twin peeks : Australian and NZ feature films / Deb Verhoeven Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 1999. Call No: 71(94) TWI Place: Melbourne Publisher: Damned Publishing PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 558 p. Subject: AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. NEW ZEALAND; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FAMILY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA. 1970's; WARD, VINCENT; HALL, KEN G.; DARK CITY (US, Alex Proyas, 1997); BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (AT, George Miller, 1998); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933); FLOATING LIFE (AT, Clara Law, 1996); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959); YATGO HO YAN (HK, Samo Hung, 1997); RADIANCE (AT, Rachel Perkins, 1998); VACANT POSSESSION (AT, Margot Nash, 1995) ISBN: 1876310006 LON: 20154200 ID2: 29 More info
book		Undressing cinema : clothing and identity in the movies / Stella Bruzzi London New York: Routledge, 1997. Call No: 226.4 BRU Author: Bruzzi, Stella, 1962 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: xxi, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: COSTUMES; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; GANGSTER FILMS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; FEMME FATALE; TRANSVESTISM; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971); SABRINA (US, Billy Wilder, 1954); PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990); TROP BELLE POUR TOI (FR, Bertrand Blier, 1989); READY TO WEAR (US, Robert Altman, 1994); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); LEON (FR, Luc Besson, 1994); NEW JACK CITY (US, Mario Van Peebles, 1991); BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991); WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995); DISCLOSURE (US, Barry Levinson, 1994); SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (US, Barbet Schroeder, 1992); LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994); GLEN OR GLENDA (US, Edward D. Wood, 1953); ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); MRS DOUBTFIRE (US, Chris Columbus, 1993); BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, THE (US, Maggie Greenwald, 1993); CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-216) and index; Filmography: p. 204-207 ISBN: 0415139562 (hbk : alk. paper); 0415139570 (pbk : alk. paper) LON: 97007260; 13082009 ID2: 38 More info
book		The virgin suicides : reverie, sorrow and young love / Justin Wyatt New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Call No: 81 VIR WYA Author: Wyatt, Justin Edition: 2018 Place: New York and London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2018 PhysDes: 110 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm Series: cinema and youth cultures; 7 Subject: VIRGIN SUICIDES, THE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2000); MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); COPPOLA, SOFIA Summary: Based on the best-selling novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides is director Sofia Coppola’s evocative debut feature of young love, sex, loss and family pressures in mid-1970s America. Acclaimed by both critics and audiences on release, the film is now viewed as a remarkable and bold feature by a significant female director addressing many issues related to youth, female sexuality and family. This book helps readers understand the film’s significance and the stylistic and storytelling choices made by director Coppola. The analysis of the film occurs around three interlocking arguments: the unusual structuring absence in the film, the intricate manner through which music is used in the drama, communication and character creation, and the film’s careful and specific referencing of advertising in the 1970s (the decade of the film’s narrative). The film’s enigmatic structure and unique storytelling devices and their relationship to female adolescence, sexuality and ideology are also considered in depth. Without solving the mysteries of the film, the book is designed to uncover the reasons why the film continues to fascinate viewers so many years after its release. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781138046443 Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1: 1990s Indie Cinema and the Path to The Virgin Suicides -- Chapter 2: Next Gen Coppola: Legacy, Loss and the Burden of Biography -- Chapter 3: The Enigma of The Virgin Suicides -- Chapter 4: Music, Storytelling and Young Love -- Chapter 5: The Advertising Aesthetic and Youth Culture of The Virgin Suicides -- Chapter 6: Sofia Coppola: The Virgin Suicides, Identity and Difference. More info
book		Words and images : Australian novels into film / Brian McFarlane Richmond, Vic.: Heinemann in association with Cinema Papers, 1983. 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 More info

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