40,000 Years of Dreaming
Release Date: 1996-11-23
Overview: 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."
Rating: 6.2 / 10
Cast
George Miller
as Self - Host / Narrator
Joseph Campbell
as Self - Mythologist (archive footage)
Crew
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George Miller - Director
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Colin MacCabe - Executive Producer
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Bob Last - Executive Producer
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George Miller - Writer
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George Miller - Producer
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