40,000 Years of Dreaming Poster

40,000 Years of Dreaming

62.00% | November 10, 1997 | Documentary, TV Movie

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."

Featured Crew

George Miller
Director
Colin MacCabe
Executive Producer
Bob Last
Executive Producer

Cast

George Miller
George Miller
Self - Host / Narrator
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

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