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Butler Libraries Film Series: The Truman Show

A Guide to supplement the new Butler Libraries Film Series, launched September 2023

More on The Truman Show

Visual Paranoia in Rear Window, Blow-Up and the Truman Show by Eva Schwarz
Publication Date: 2012
Dreams Within a Dream: The films of Peter Weir by Michael Bliss
ISBN: 9780585307688
Publication Date: 2000
Peter Weir by John C. Tibbetts (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014
Peter Weir by Serena Formica
Publication Date: 2012
Skepticism Films by Philipp Schmerheim
Publication Date: 2015

Peter Weir

Further Reading

So, What's Wrong With This Picture?
Maslin, Janet. The New York Times. June 5, 1998
The Truman Show [review]
Ebert, Roger. June 5, 1988.
Mapping the Culture of Control: Seeing Through 'The Truman Show'
Wise, J. Macgregor. Television & New Media. Vol. 43, Issue 1. Feb. 2002.
A Theme Park Built for One: The New Urbanism vs. Disney Design in 'The Truman Show'
Cunningham, Douglas A. Critical Survey. Vol. 17, No. 1 2005.
Reading 'The Truman Show' Inside Out
Knox, Simone. Film Criticism. Vol. 35 Issue 1. Fall 2010.
Live Transmission: Revisiting 'The Truman Show' in a Panoptic World
Douglas, James Robert. Screen Education. Issue 92, 2018.
Twenty Years Later, Everything is 'The Truman Show'
Miller, Julie. Vanity Fair. June 5, 2018.

Further Viewing

Dead Poets Society by Peter Weir
Publication Date: 1989
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World by Peter Weir
Publication Date: 2003
The Directors: Peter Weir
Publication Date: 2020

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