Peter Weir : a Creative Journey from Australia to Hollywood. by Formica, Serena

Table of Contents: “…FrontCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Migrations and transnationalism in the cinema; Chapter 2: Perspectives on Peter Weir; Chapter 3: Australian production context in the 1970s and early 1980s; Chapter 4: Peter Weir's four key steps from Australia to Hollywood; Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix I: Filmography -- Main credits; Appendix II: Films made in Hollywood by Australian directors; BackCover.…”
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Peter Weir : interviews /

Table of Contents: “…Peter Weir: reclaiming a Sydney boyhood / John C. Tibbetts, 2012 -- Peter Weir: snapshots in time / John C. …”
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Peter Weir : a Creative Journey from Australia to Hollywood. by Formica, Serena

Table of Contents: “…FrontCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Migrations and transnationalism in the cinema; Chapter 2: Perspectives on Peter Weir; Chapter 3: Australian production context in the 1970s and early 1980s; Chapter 4: Peter Weir's four key steps from Australia to Hollywood; Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix I: Filmography -- Main credits; Appendix II: Films made in Hollywood by Australian directors; BackCover.…”
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Peter Weir : interviews /

Table of Contents: “…Peter Weir: reclaiming a Sydney boyhood / John C. Tibbetts, 2012 -- Peter Weir: snapshots in time / John C. …”
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Dead Poets Society

The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema by Leonard, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Mystical Gaze; 2 The Unseen Gaze: Religion, Mysticism and Film; 3 Defining the Codes within the Mystical Gaze; 4 An Apprehension of Mysticism: Peter Weir; 5 Picnic at Hanging Rock; 6 Gallipoli; 7 Witness; Conclusions; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index; Copyright…”
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The Roots of Modern Hollywood : the Persistence of Values in American Cinema, from the New Deal to the Present. by Smedley, Nick

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: The failure of American liberalism and the cinema of despair: Hollywood in the 1970s; Chapter 2: The disappointment of the liberal renaissance: Hollywood in the Clinton era, 1992-2000; Fantasy in the 1990s; Exemplar film one: Groundhog Day; Exemplar film two: The Truman Show; Author's interview with Peter Weir; Introduction to the published screenplay of The Truman Show, by Peter Weir; Chapter 3: The rise and fall of the Republicans: Melancholy meditationson America's destiny, 2000-2012.…”
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The Sound of Pictures : Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity. by Ford, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Cover page; title page; copyright page; dedication; contents; introduction; the role of music; five composers; ennio morricone; richard rodney bennett; dick hyman; lalo schifrin; howard shore; listening to the movies; classical music in films; pop goes the score; pictures of sound; listening for clues in hitchcock; the sound of voices; the sounds of silence (and bumps in the night); five directors; bruce beresford; sally potter; wim wenders; peter greenaway; peter weir; epilogue: the shared experience of sound; some further reading & acknowledgments; films mentioned in this book.…”
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The plumber.

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Existentialism and contemporary cinema : a Sartrean perspective

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey -- The call to freedom. Peter Weir's The Truman show and Sartrean freedom / Christopher Falzon -- Michael Haneke and the consequences of radical freedom / Kevin L. …”
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Voicing the cinema : film music and the integrated soundtrack

Table of Contents: “…The Trouble with Onscreen Orchestrators : Progeny and Compositional Crisis in the Four Daughters Film / Nathan Platte ; Some Thoughts on Genre, the Vococentric Cinema, and "Stella by Starlight" / David Neumeyer ; Listening to Soundscapes in Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala (1975) / Brooke McCorkle ; Peter Weir and the Piano Concerto / Erik Heine -- Narrative and Vococentrism. …”
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Verse, voice, and vision : poetry and the cinema

Table of Contents: “…"Some are born to endless night": the Blakean vision of Jim Jarmusch's Dead man / by Hugh Davis -- Into the woods: William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream and Peter Weir's Dead poets society / by Nichole DeWall -- "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?"…”
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Mediamorphosis : Kafka and the moving image by Biderman, Shai

Table of Contents: “…Rickels -- Moving pictures -- visual pleasures : Kafka's cinematic writing / Peter Beicken -- To move as the image moves : the rule of rhythmic presence and absence in Kafka's The man who disappeared / Tobias Kuehne -- Noises off : cinematic sound in Kafka's 'The burrow' / Kata Gellen -- Gesture, wardrobe, backdrop and prop in Franz Kafka's The man who disappeared and Peter Weir's The Truman show / Idit Alphandary -- The possibility of the cinematic in 'The metamorphosis' and 'The burrow' / Kevin W. …”
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Small-screen Shakespeare by Cochran, Peter, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Withnail and i (bruce robinson, 1986)dead poets society (peter weir, 1989); rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (tom stoppard, 1990); the house of cards (paul seed: 1990); in the bleak midwinter (aka a midwinter's tale: kenneth branagh, 1995); shakespeare in love (johnmadden, 1998); the king is alive (kristian levring, 2000); thewest wing, series three, episodes 20-2 (christopher misiano, thomas schlamme, alex graves, 2002); stage beauty (richard eyre, 2004); slings and arrows (peter wellington, 2003-6); anonymous (roland emmerich, 2011); cesare deve morire (paolo and vittorio taviani, 2012).…”
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Climate change and water : international perspectives on mitigation and adaptation

Table of Contents: “…Walsh -- The climate footprint and the practical application at water companies in The Netherlands / Peter Weirs, Henk de Boer, Theo Janse, Leo Joosten, Jan Peter van der Hoek, Dirk van der Woerdt -- Climate footprint and mitigation measures in the Dutch water sector / Jos Frijns, Mirabella Mulder, Jelle Roorda --The water footprint of bio-energy / A.Y. …”
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