TY - GEN
T1 - Everyday longing
T2 - City life in Winter of Our Dreams and Lonely Hearts
AU - Gibson, Suzie
AU - Biron, Dean
PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - A stark contrast from the period films and genre hits that dominated the Australian film revival, two small-scale dramas released at the beginning of the 1980s told stories from a much more recognisable milieu: The work, personal crises and love lives of middle-class city dwellers. The films, directed by John Duigan and Paul Cox respectively, were only moderately successful in their day, but, as Suzie Gibson and Dean Biron argue, are ripe for rediscovery as quintessential reflections of their era.
AB - A stark contrast from the period films and genre hits that dominated the Australian film revival, two small-scale dramas released at the beginning of the 1980s told stories from a much more recognisable milieu: The work, personal crises and love lives of middle-class city dwellers. The films, directed by John Duigan and Paul Cox respectively, were only moderately successful in their day, but, as Suzie Gibson and Dean Biron argue, are ripe for rediscovery as quintessential reflections of their era.
KW - Australian Cinema, Arthouse Films
UR - https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.507463304653395
M3 - Article
VL - 210
SP - 102
EP - 109
JO - Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine
JF - Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine
SN - 0312-2654
ER -