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Feminist Mise-en-scène in MY BRILLIANT CAREER

Feminist Mise-en-scène in MY BRILLIANT CAREER

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Observations on Film Art No. 33

Professor Jeff Smith explores Gillian Armstrong's use of lighting, costuming, and decor to upend conventionally masculine mythologies in MY BRILLIANT CAREER.

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    My Brilliant Career

    My Brilliant Career

    Directed by Gillian Armstrong • 1979 • Australia
    Starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill

    For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the co...

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