Jonathan Rayner

Jonathan R. Rayner

With The Films of Peter Weir, Jonathan Raynerpresents an examination of the Australian director's short films and feature productions since 1970.

The Films of Peter Weir

This introduction to the new Australian film industry explores prominent directors and stars, themes, styles, and evolving genres in an analysis of key films. The evolution of genres peculiar to Australia and adaptations of conventional Hollywood forms such as the musical and the road movie are examined through readings of landmark films, including Picnic at Hanging Rock, Mad Max trilogy, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The key issue of the revival--the definition, representation, and propagation of a national image--is woven through the analysis.

An Introduction

Contemporary Australian Cinema

Graeme Harper

Cinema and Landscape frames up contemporary film landscapes across the world, in a concentrated examination and interrogation of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment.

Jonathan R. Rayner

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