40,000 Years of Dreaming
(1997)

The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand

Released: 1997-11-10

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Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."

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George Miller

as Self - Host / Narrator

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Joseph Campbell

as Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

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Colin MacCabe

Executive Producer

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Bob Last

Executive Producer

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Carl Vine

Original Music Composer

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Dion Beebe

Director of Photography

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