Contemporary New Zealand Cinema : From New Wave to Blockbuster.
Title:
Contemporary New Zealand Cinema : From New Wave to Blockbuster.
Author:
Conrich, Ian.
ISBN:
9780857711625
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword - Lindsay Shelton -- Introduction - Ian Conrich and Stuart Murray -- Part I: 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 - 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 Whitiahua - Sarah Davy and Diane Pivac -- Part II: Aesthetics and Form -- 7. The Space Between: Screen Representations of the New Zealand Small Town - Ian Conrich -- 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 -- Part III: 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 -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
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._x000D_ _x000D_ 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.
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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