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| | A Cry in the Dark: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and the "New Australian Cinema" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith was the second feature directed (and written and produced) by Fred Schepisi, who, along with Peter Weir, Phillip Noyce, Bruce Beresford, Tim Burstall, George Miller and Gillian Armstrong, was one of the key directors of the New Australian Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s. |
 | | To reinforce this, there is a later scene at the Neville's dinner table in which Jimmie, on the eve of going out to make his way in the world, thanks the Reverend and his wife for his education. |
 | | Again the mise en scène underlines this: the aforementioned scene at the Neville's dinner table contrasts with many exterior scenes where extreme long shots repeatedly frame Jimmie as dwarfed by the landscape around him, graphically foregrounding the fact that, unlike true Aborigines, Jimmie cannot live with the land and achieve liberation and freedom within it. |
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