[Commlist] CFP Peter Weir book (Edinburgh University Press)

*/Refocus: The Films of Peter Weir/*

**

Over several decades, Peter Weir has directed critically acclaimed and 
popular films that frequently portray protagonists on the threshold of 
an unexplored environment that dazzles and confounds.Yet despite his 
global profile, Weir’s work remains relatively understudied. Only a 
handful of books have exclusively addressed his career/in toto/and only 
one scholarly volume has been published since his most recent film was 
released over a decade ago.In a career that can be categorized as having 
two distinct phases (Australian trailblazer and Hollywood maverick), 
many of Weir’s films are distinguished by their financial success. This 
run of box office accomplishments was established in Australia 
with/Picnic at Hanging Rock/(1975) and was repeated at the international 
level several times during Weir’s extended American excursion with films 
including/Witness/(1985);/Dead Poets Society/(1989);/The Truman 
Show/(1999); and/Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World/(2003). 
Working across a range of genres from early engagement with low-budget 
horror (/Homesdale/, 1971,/The Cars that Ate Paris/, 1974) and 
documentary (/Whatever Happened to Green Valley?/, 1973) to the epic 
sweep of his prison escape adventure,/The Way Back/(2010), there is 
throughout Weir’s diverse oeuvre a tangible sense of thematic connection 
and authorial voice across his eclectic choices.

This proposed/ReFocus/edited collection will consider papers on the 
films of Peter Weir. Some of the themes that authors can consider are:

·Weir and literary adaptation

·Postcolonialism

·Cross-cultural (mis)communication

·Weir and the Australian Wave

·Weir and Hollywood

·Australian Identity in the international context

·Australians in Hollywood

·Auteurism

·Representation of Women

·Genre

·The Hollywood star in Weir’s films

·Ensemble casts

·Television work

·First nations representation

·/Mise//-en-scène/

·Ecology and environment

·Soundscapes

·Additional approaches are welcome.

If you have any questions regarding the topics, please feel free to 
discuss with the editor. The suggested themes are not exhaustive.

*Contact Email: (wadayathinkfilm /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(wadayathinkfilm /at/ gmail.com)>:*

*Deadline for abstracts: March 31st 2024*

*Proposals of approximately 200-500 words*are invited for the proposed 
project to be submitted to Edinburgh University Press as part of 
the/Refocus/Series on International Directors. Series editors are Drs. 
Robert Singer, Stefanie Van de Peer, and Gary D. Rhodes. The deadline 
for ab­stract submission is *March 31st, 2024*. Please send your 
proposals,accompanied by a 100-150 wordauthor “bio”, to Russell Edwards 
via*(wadayathinkfilm /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(wadayathinkfilm /at/ gmail.com)>*. Upon 
approval, accepted contributors are expected to submit their full 
chap­tersof approximately 6,000 to 8,000 wordsforthe refereed anthology, 
referenced in/Chicago/endnote style,by December 31st, 2024.

Dr Russell Edwards while early in his career as a researcher has 
extensive experience as a film critic (including a decade with 
international trade publication /Variety/) and is a former President of 
the Film Critics Circle of Australia.

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