The films of Gillian Armstrong / by Felicity Collins
Published
St Kilda, Vic. : Australian Teachers of Media in association with Australian Film Institute Research and Information Centre and Deakin University School of Visual, Performing and Media Arts, 1999
Ch. 1. a gillian armstrong film -- Ch. 2. the artist as a young woman -- Ch. 3. abandoned women -- Ch. 4. facing time -- Ch. 5. a liquid vision
Summary
"Felicity Collins has long been one of Australia's most perceptive, rigorous and exciting film analysts. Here, she brings the films of Gillian Armstrong alive in a timely, poetic and genuinely revelatory fashion. From My Brilliant Career through to Oscar and Lucinda, we discover the fragile yet tenacious 'transformative' power of Armstrong's distinctive vision. Felicity Collins draws together potent ideas of 'maternal space', the conditions of modernity, the vicissitudes of time, and daily experience of the physical and cultural environment, in order to illuminate Armstrong's subtle and enduring 'idea of cinema'. " / Adrian Martin--back cover