JONATHAN RAYNER teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is also the author of Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Peter Weir’s first feature film, The Cars That Ate Paris, was a logical development from his work in short and experimental films. Its themes—of the dangers of conformity within an authoritarian establishment and the difficulty...
JONATHAN RAYNER teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is also the author of Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Marking the end of Peter Weir’s Australian work and presaging his move to Hollywood, Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously enjoyed varying critical and commercial success. Gallipoli occupies an important place in Australia’s film...
JONATHAN RAYNER teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is also the author of Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Films are, above all, about something, and the question of remakes and reworkings in the careers of major directors primarily revolves around reconsiderations and restatements of major thematic, ethical, and moral concerns. … The fact...
JONATHAN RAYNER teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is also the author of Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Witness marked Peter Weir’s American feature debut. The film was made for Paramount, starred a major American actor (Harrison Ford), and emerged as a considerable commercial success, gaining eight Academy Award nominations. While the film...
JONATHAN RAYNER teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is also the author of Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Like Peter Weir’s first two American and his last Australian films [Gollipoli [1981] and The Year of Living Dangerously [ 1982]), Dead Poets Society and Green Card reflect the commercial and personal sides to the director’s choice of work...
JONATHAN RAYNER teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is also the author of Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...More than twenty-five years after its release, Picnic at Hanging Rock remains the film with which Peter Weir’s name is most closely associated and maintains its place as one of the keystones of the Australian film revival. It can...
JONATHAN RAYNER teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is also the author of Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...A vast gap is opened up between knowledge (as scientific investigation and rational enquiry) and gnosis (a knowledge of ultimate truths, a kind of spiritual wisdom), and it is in this gap that the modern fantastic is situated.Rosemary...
JONATHAN RAYNER teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is also the author of Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...The apparent disparity between Fearless and The Truman Show, in terms of their commercial success and critical reception may appear to preclude their discussion in tandem. The tragic trajectory of the former and the comedic, satiric...
JONATHAN RAYNER teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is also the author of Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...No trait we could assign to an implied author of a film could not more simply be ascribed to the narration itself: it sometimes suppresses information, it often restricts our knowledge, it generates curiosity, it creates a tone, and so on....
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