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Author : Rachel Palgan
Publisher : Pascal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781741250350
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Witness Directed by Peter Weir written by Rachel Palgan and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617038989
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Peter Weir written by John C. Tibbetts and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. He talks about “the precious desperation of the art, the madness, the willingness to experiment” in all his films; the adaptation process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, “I’m going to eat your script; it’s going to be part of my blood!”; and his self-assessment as “merely a jester, with cap and bells, going from court to court.” He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his own story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to his apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the 1960s, his preparations to shoot his first features in the early 1970s, his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An extensive new interview details his current plans for a new film. 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 that the trajectory of Weir’s life and work parallels and embodies Australia’s own quest to define and express a historical and cultural identity.
Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826415356
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Films of Peter Weir written by Jonathan Rayner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Weir is, without doubt, one of the most important Australian film directors of all time. His films have had a major impact, both in terms of the Australian film industry (Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Cars That Ate Paris, and Gallipoli) and as the work of an innovative auteur working within the confines of the Hollywood system (Witness, Dead Poets Society, Fearless, and The Truman Show). This fully revised and updated edition of Jonathan Rayner's acclaimed study takes an in-depth look at the career of a filmmaker who has, over the course of 30 years, put together a substantial and much-loved body of work. Rayner illustrates how Peter Weir brings a consistent vision to his films, no matter how disparate their subject matter - and how he uses his 'outsider' status in the American film industry to his advantage. The release of Weir's new movie, a sea-faring epic starring Russell Crowe, in ??? 2003, will likely heighten his status as a great director still further.
Author : William Kelley
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
ISBN 13 : 9780671545956
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Witness written by William Kelley and published by New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks. This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
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Author : Earl W. Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Witness written by Earl W. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their savior turns out to be the hardened Philadelphia detective John Book, who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241959195
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Mosquito Coast written by Paul Theroux and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020 The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. 'Stunning. . . exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful' Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times 'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror' Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian 'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, My Other Life, The Collected Stories, My Secret History, The Lower River, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, A Dead Hand, Millroy the Magician, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, The Consul's File, The Family Arsenal, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.
Author : James Berardinelli
Publisher : Justin, Charles & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1932112405
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Reel Views 2 written by James Berardinelli and published by Justin, Charles & Co.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated for 2005! Includes a new chapter on the best special edition DVDs and a new chapter on finding hidden easter egg features.
Author : Michael Bliss
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809322848
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Dreams Within a Dream written by Michael Bliss and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What we see, and what we seem, are but a dream, a dream within a dream." Michael Bliss views Miranda's voice-over at the beginning of Picnic at Hanging Rock as so pivotal in explaining the films of Peter Weir that he borrows her words to create the title of his own study of the Australian filmmaker's work. Bliss views Weir as an artist whose values are rooted in the realm of the dream, of the unconscious. Surrealistic in technique, Weir avoids the pedestrian assurances of a material realm in favor of an irresolution that, while potentially frustrating, is nonetheless for him a more truthful representation of what he considers reality. For Weir, as for Plato, Bliss demonstrates, "empirical reality is nothing more than a shadow of what is real." Bliss also considers Weir's heritage. Australian cinema, Bliss explains, is characterized by melodramatic narratives born of a desire to see good and evil portrayed in striking opposition. Weir, for example, dramatizes the contradictory forces of light versus darkness, reason versus mystery, and rationality versus magic in such films as Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave. This melodramatic emphasis is evident as well in the polarized characterizations in such films as Witness, Dead Poets Society, and The Truman Show. Bliss also discusses Weir's use of another staple of Australian cinema-- "mateship," the celebration of the bond between male companions. But by making self-knowledge dependent on action involving one's friends, Weir gives mateship a new meaning. Moreover, like other Australian filmmakers, Weir emphasizes the starkness of the Australian landscape, which functions either as a hazard or a deadly challenge, at least until American mythology caused him to see nature in a more positive light. Also prominent in Weir's films is an Australian spirit of rebellion coupled with the Aussie ambivalence toward all aspects of British culture. To help explain Weir's films, Bliss looks to Freud and Jung, whom Weir has studied, and also to two other prominent purveyors of myth and archetype, Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell. Virtually all Weir characters struggle toward a new mode of awareness, a psychological awareness based on archetypal truths. Many of his films involve archetypal journeys heading through conflict to spiritual unity. Weir's quest is to find out what we really know and how we know what we know.
Author : David Weaver-Zercher
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801866814
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Amish in the American Imagination written by David Weaver-Zercher and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enveloped in mystery, Amish culture has remained a captivating topic within mainstream American culture. In this volume, David Weaver-Zercher explores how Americans throughout the 20th century reacted to and interpreted the Amish. Through an examination of a variety of visual and textual sources, Weaver-Zercher explores how diverse groups - ranging from Mennonites to Hollywood producers - represented and understood the Amish.
Author : Chet Bush
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426759924
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Called to the Fire written by Chet Bush and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Dr. Charles Johnson, an African American preacher who went to Mississippi in 1961 during the summer of the Freedom Rides. Fresh out of Bible School Johnson hesitantly followed his call to pastor in Mississippi, a hotbed for race relations during the early 1960’s. Unwittingly thrust into the heart of a national tragedy, the murder of three Civil Rights activists, he overcame fear and adversity to become a leader in the Civil Rights movement. As a key African American witness to take the stand in the trial famously dubbed the “Mississippi Burning” case by the FBI, Charles Johnson played a key role for the Federal Justice Department, offering clarity to the event that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This story of love, conviction, adversity, and redemption climaxes with a shocking encounter between Charles and one of the murderers. The reader will be riveted to the details of a gracious life in pursuit of the call of God from the pulpit to the streets, and ultimately into the courtroom.
Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780304701230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Films of Peter Weir written by Jonathan Rayner and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Films of Peter Weir, Jonathan Raynerpresents an examination of the Australian director's short films and feature productions since 1970.
Author : Nadine Klemens
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638641457
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Peter Weir's "The Truman Show": The Ultimate Hidden Camera Special written by Nadine Klemens and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0 (A), Technical University of Braunschweig (English Seminar), course: HS Documentary Film, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Through a spy hole in a bathroom cabinet we see a man in pajamas talking to himself in the mirror. Or is he talking to us? After a while, we hear a voice of a woman, telling him that he will be late. With a sigh, the man turns around and leaves the bathroom. On a black screen, we read "Day 10, 909"- then we see the man through another spy hole, dressed in a business suit, leaving his house for work. He greets his neighbors with a wide grin, and the neighbors enthusiastically greet back. As he adds "Oh, and in case I don′t see ye: Good afternoon, good evening and good night ", they react as though they think this was extremely funny. When the dog of his next-door neighbor comes to greet him, the man freezes, on his face an expression of terror. He waits till the dog moves back and is about to get in his car when the camera suddenly pans and we see a theatrical light falling out of the sunny sky. Suspiciously, the man goes to examine what has crashed down on the street in front of his house. He does not know what to think of the light, which has a tag on it, designating it as "Sirius". In disbelief, he gazes into the sky- is this how stars look like? The man is called Truman Burbank, and we are watching Peter Weir′s movie The Truman Show (1998). The movie is not a typical feature film as it mixes feature film elements and docu-soap elements. By confronting his audience with elements of its daily TV-programming, the docu-soap, Peter Weir establishes a satire of the media that leaves its viewers with the uneasy feeling that reality is not always what it appears to be. This work gives a short summary of the movie, as well as it depicts its style and structure. Furthermore, Peter Weir′s thematic concerns are explained. The
Author : Christopher J. Koch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140065350
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Year of Living Dangerously written by Christopher J. Koch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligent, compelling tale of political turmoil in mid-twentieth-century Indonesia. "Well conceived and beautifully executed."—Larry McMurtry.
Author : JON JAMES. MILLER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943075744
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Looking for Garbo written by JON JAMES. MILLER and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ingrid Weir
Publisher : Hardie Grant Books
ISBN 13 : 9781743797297
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)
Download or read book New Rural written by Ingrid Weir and published by Hardie Grant Books. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interiors book for lovers of down-to-earth, beautiful and authentic rural aesthetics.
Author : Slavomir Rawicz
Publisher : LP, Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781493022618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Long Walk written by Slavomir Rawicz and published by LP, Lyons Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
