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40,000 Years of Dreaming

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40,000 Years of Dreaming
Directed byGeorge Miller
Written byGeorge Miller
Produced byBob Last
Colin MacCabe
StarringGeorge Miller
CinematographyDion Beebe
Edited byMargaret Sixel
Music byCarl Vine
Release date
  • 10 November 1997(1997-11-10)
Running time
67 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Australia
LanguageEnglish

40,000 Years of Dreaming(White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema) is an hour-long documentary film presented byGeorge Millerand produced by theBritish Film Institute,as part of itsCentury of Cinemaseries.[1]

The film is mainly a collage of various pieces of Australian film, past and present, including Miller's ownMad Maxseries.[2]Miller focuses primarily onAustralian cinemaas a vessel of public Dreaming, creating a link between contemporary Australian cinema and theDreamtimelores from a variety ofAboriginal Australiangroups.[3][4]Miller also places Australian cinema in the context ofJoseph Campbell'smonomythconcept.

It has been out of print since its release in 1997, along with several of the other films in theCentury of Cinemaseries, apart fromMartin Scorsese'sfeature.It has occasionally been aired on television.

References

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  1. ^"White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema".Australian Cinema.
  2. ^"40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema".aso.gov.au.Retrieved5 December2019.
  3. ^Refer to theAIATSIS mapfor more information on Aboriginal language groups.
  4. ^"40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australilan Cinema".variety.22 December 1996.Retrieved5 December2019.
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