Peter Weir

A Creative Journey from Australia to Hollywood

By: Serena Formica

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Paperback | 1 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Peter Weir has been directing Hollywood films since his successful US debut, Witness, in 1985. But does this make him a Hollywood director? Or should he still be considered an Australian filmmaker as many scholars argue? For the first time, Weir’s entire three-decade creative journey from Australia to Hollywood is considered in light of the recent theories on transnational cinema and through a close examination of four key films: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, and The Truman Show The films’ analyses integrate original interviews with Weir and his closest collaborators, including Russell Boyd. The book concludes that Weir is both an Australian and a Hollywood filmmaker—and would be better seen as a transnational filmmaker whose success in the United States reflects the fact that he was already a “Hollywood” director by the time he relocated.

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'I found her portrait of Weir to be captivating. Formica's analysis of each of his films is also thorough and revelatory. This book is an engaging and worthwhile read.' - Lia McCrae-Moore for Senses of Cinema

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Migrations and transnationalism in the cinema	p. 9
Perspectives on Peter Weir	p. 29
Australian production context in the 1970s and early 1980s	p. 59
Peter Weir's four key steps from Australia to Hollywood	p. 93
Conclusions	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 171
Filmography - Main credits	p. 195
Films made in Hollywood by Australian directors	p. 199
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A Creative Journey from Australia to Hollywood

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