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40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming

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40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming

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  • Title:40,000 Years of Dreaming
  • User score:
    6.2
  • Release date:1996-11-23
  • Genres:Documentary, TV Movie
  • Country:Australia, United Kingdom
  • Language:English
  • Budget:$0
  • Revenue:$0
  • Runtime:67 min
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."

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George Miller

George Miller

Self - Host / Narrator

Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

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