Record Number |
724111 |
Title |
Brilliant creatures : presented by Howard Jacobson. Germaine, Clive, Barry & Bob [videorecording]. |
Publisher/Date |
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Distributed byRoadshow Entertainment, ©2014. |
©2014 |
Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (116 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
Contents note |
Catalogued from container. |
Roadshow Entertainment : R-114954-9. |
DVD release of the 2014 documentary television program. |
"Retracing the footsteps of four Australian cultural iconoclasts" -- Cover. |
Creation Note |
Directed & script edited by Paul Clarke ; series produced by Dan Goldberg ; written by Howard Jacobson. |
Performer note |
Hosted by Howard Jacobson ; Barry Humphries, Clive James, Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes. |
Summary Note |
Man Booker Prize Winner Howard Jacobson sets off on a journey of discovery to understand why Barry Humphries, Robert Hughes, Germaine Greer and Clive James left Australia in the 1960s and how they became cultural giants in London and New York. In the immediate aftermath of the death of Robert Hughes, this revelatory series celebrates Australia's own 'Wizards of Oz' four people who left the 'cultural desert' of Australia in the 1960s and '70s and became icons or iconoclasts in the cultural heartland of the West. This documentary series, hosted and authored by Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson, retraces their footsteps from Australia to Britain and beyond, and ponders the irony that Britain sent convicts to Australia and, in return, Australia sent its best and brightest, the irreverent and the irrepressible. |
Target audience note |
Classification : M. |
Language note |
English. English Captions [descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired]. |
Subject - Name |
Greer, Germaine, -- 1939- |
Humphries, Barry, -- 1934- |
James, Clive, -- 1939- |
Hughes, Robert, -- 1938-2012 |
Subject |
Art critics -- Australia -- Biography |
Feminists -- Australia -- Biography |
Satirists -- Australia -- Biography |
Nonfiction television programs |
-- Australia -- Biography |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
Documentary television programs |
Satirists -- Australia -- Biography |
Art critics -- Australia -- Biography |
Nonfiction television programs |
Feminists -- Australia -- Biography |
Added Author |
Jacobson, Howard on-screen presenter. |
Corporate Author |
Mint Pictures |
Serendipity Productions |
Screen NSW |
Screen Australia |
Shelf Location |
DVD 920.094 BRIL |