Peter Weir

The first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject.

It is the sort of historical document which will get more valuable over the years, and we should all be grateful to John C. Tibbetts for writing it.""- Kevin Brownlow

John C. Tibbetts is associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Kansas. His books include The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media ; Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography ; Schumann: A Chorus of Voices ; the three-volume American Classic Screen ; Peter Weir: Interviews ; and (with James M. Welsh) Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century , the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.