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Title

'Petersen'

Author(s)

McFarlane, Brian

Abstract

For many people, it may be the period costume pieces, adapted from Australian literary works, that most powerfully evoke the 1970s Australian cinema revival - the likes of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (Peter Weir, 1975), 'The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith' (Fred Schepisi, 1978), 'The Getting of Wisdom' (Bruce Beresford, 1978) and 'My Brilliant Career' (Gillian Armstrong, 1979). But as influential as these films were in creating the perception of a new national cinema, there was always a lot of very different work going on. I would claim that, in some ways, 'Petersen' (Tim Burstall, 1974) now looks like an archetypal film of the decade - not just in themes, but in style, in personnel, and in how it deals with the relaxed censorship of the 1970s.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Metro Magazine, no. 172 (2012), pp. 98-108

Publication year

2012

FOR Code(s)

1902 Film, Television and Digital Media;  2001 Communication and Media Studies

Keyword(s)

Australian cinema;  Australian films;  Film making;  Petersen

Publisher

Australian Teachers of Media

ISSN

0312-2654

Publisher URL

http://www.metromagazine.com.au/

Copyright

Copyright © ATOM. This article was first published in Metro Magazine (http://www.metromagazine.com.au/). The published version is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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