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"Schepisi as a chameleon is the premise of this engaging survey of the director's considerable and remarkably diverse output by Brian McFarlane, whose capacity to produce a cinematic catalogue raisonn� of this kind is unrivalled.--Simon Caterson ""The Age"" The Films of Fred Schepisi fills an important and surprising gap. It draws on new interviews with the subject and much of the popular critical literature on Schepisi, and it is the first work to deal with the entirety of Schepisi's career. Overall, the volume provides an insightful and necessary contribution to the study of both a contemporary director working across different film industries and to Australian cinema during the last fifty years.--Adrian Danks, associate professor at RMIT University and coeditor of American-Australian Cinema: Transnational Connections The Films of Fred Schepisi is a lucid, timely introduction to the work of one of Australia's finest and most distinctive filmmakers that explains how he has found a place in world cinema.--Janet Wilson, professor emerita of English and postcolonial studies at University of Northampton"

The Films of Fred Schepisi fills an important and surprising gap. It draws on new interviews with the subject and much of the popular critical literature on Schepisi, and it is the first work to deal with the entirety of Schepisi's career. Overall, the volume provides an insightful and necessary contribution to the study of both a contemporary director working across different film industries and to Australian cinema during the last fifty years. The Films of Fred Schepisi is a lucid, timely introduction to the work of one of Australia's finest and most distinctive filmmakers that explains how he has found a place in world cinema.

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Brian McFarlane is associate professor of English at Monash University, Melbourne. He is compiler, editor, and chief author of The Encyclopedia of British Film.

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