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Contemporary New Zealand Cinema
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New Zealand cinema burst onto the global stage in the 1970s and has maintained its high-profile international presence with such films as 'Whalerider', the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy and 'Once Were Warriors'. 'Contemporary New Zealand Cinema' is an astute analysis of this fascinating industry and the most thorough book available on a vibrant filmmaking culture.
The book explores the industry, questions of aesthetics and form, nation and identity through the full range of filmmaking in New Zealand. It also highlights specific contexts, including Maori, documentary and short filmmaking, literary adaptations, the development of the national Film Commission, marketing and censorship, as well as questions of bicultural relations, spirituality, masculinity and disability - that have a created a cinema of global significance. A comprehensive filmography details all New Zealand feature and television films.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xiii
Lindsay Shelton
Introduction 1
Ian Conrich and Stuart Murray
Section 1: Industry and Commerce
1. The New Zealand Film Commission: Promoting an Industry, Forging a National Identity
Gregory A. Waller
2. Boom and Bust: Tax-driven Film Production in New Zealand in the 1980s
Nick Roddick
3. The Short Film: Issues of Funding and Distribution
Alex Cole-Baker
4. The Role of Marketing in the New Zealand Feature Film
Suzette Major
5. New Zealand Film Censorship
Chris Watson
6. “With a Strong Sense of Place”: The New Zealand Film Archive/ Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitihua
Sarah Davy and Diane Pivac
Section 2: Aesthetics and Form
7. The Space Between: Screen Representations of The New Zealand Small Town
Ian Conrich
contents
i
8. Beyond Materialism?: Spirituality and Neo-Utopian Sensibility in Recent New Zealand Film
Ann Hardy
9. The Adaptation of New Zealand Literature to Film: A Case-Study Approach
Brian McDonnell
10. The Contested Nation: Documentary and Dissent
Annie Goldson and Jo Smith
Section 3: Nation and Identity
11. “Precarious Adulthood”: Communal Anxieties in 1980s Film
Stuart Murray
12. A Waka on the Wild Side: Nationalism and its Discontents in Some Recent New Zealand Films
Mark Williams
13. “He Iwi Kotahi Tatou”?: Nationalism and Cultural Identity in Maori Film
Michelle Keown
14. The Kiwi Bloke: The Representation of Pakeha Masculinity in New Zealand Film
Russell Campbell
15. Impaired and Ill at Ease: New Zealand's Cinematics of Disability
Angela Marie Smith
Filmography
List of contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | Sep 30 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 273 |
| ISBN | 9780857711625 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Series | World Cinema |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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