New Zealand Cinema : Interpreting the Past.
Title:
New Zealand Cinema : Interpreting the Past.
Author:
Keith, Barry.
ISBN:
9781841505251
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (354 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Historical Film in New Zealand Cinema -- Chapter 1: Rudall Hayward and the Cinema of Maoriland: Genre-mixing and Counter-discourses in Rewi's Last Stand (1925), The Te Kooti Trail (1927) and Rewi's Last Stand/The Last Stand (1940) -- Chapter 2: Rudall Hayward's Democratic Cinema and the "Civilising Mission" in the "Land of the Wrong White Crowd" -- Chapter 3: The Western, New Zealand History and Commercial Exploitation: The Te Kooti Trail, Utu and Crooked Earth -- Chapter 4: Unsettled Historiography: Postcolonial Anxiety and the Burden of the Past in Pictures -- Chapter 5: Cross-currents: River Queen's National and Trans-national Heritages -- Chapter 6: Tracking Tītokowaru over Text and Screen: Pākehā Narrate the Warrior, 1906-2005 -- Chapter 7: Rites of Passage in Post-Second World War New Zealand Cinema: Migrating the Masculine in Journey for Three (1950) -- Chapter 8: Cinema and the Interpretation of 1950s New Zealand History: John O'Shea and Roger Mirams, Broken Barrier (1952) -- Chapter 9: Re-representing Indigeneity: Approaches to History in Some Recent New Zealand and Australian Films -- Chapter 10: "The Donations of History": Mauri and the Transfigured "Māori Gaze": Towards a Bi-national Cinema in Aotearoa -- Chapter 11: History, Hybridity and Indeterminate Space: The Parker-Hulme Murder, Heavenly Creatures and New Zealand Cinema -- Chapter 12: Screening Women's Histories: Jane Campion and the New Zealand Heritage Film, from the Biopic to the Female Gothic -- Chapter 13: The Time and the Place: Music and Costume and the "Affect" of History in the New Zealand Films of Jane Campion -- Chapter 14: Mining for Forgotten Gold: Leon Narbey's Illustrious Energy (1987) -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
New Zealand has produced one of the world's most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country's evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features like The Te Kooti Trail to recent films such as River Queen in the new millennium, this book examines the role of the cinema of New Zealand in building a shared sense of national identity. The works of key directors, including Peter Jackson, Jane Campion, and Vincent Ward, are here introduced in a new light, and select films are given in-depth coverage. Among the most informative accounts of New Zealand's fascinating national cinema, this will be a must for film scholars around the globe.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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