Cover -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section One: Aboriginal Narratives -- Introduction -- Jedda -- Suneeti Rekhari -- The Making of Lousy Little Sixpence -- Alec Morgan -- Buffalo Legends -- Margot Ford and Shane Motlap -- Rabbit Proof Fence -- Kathy Butler -- Blood is Thicker than Water: Stains on the Land in Bra Boys -- Brooke Collins-Gearing and Henk Huijser -- Australia -- Ann McGrath -- Section Two: Māori Narratives -- Introduction -- Jennifer Gauthier -- Méliès in Maoriland: The Making of the First New Zealand Feature Films -- Mark Derby -- Patu! -- Geraldene Peters -- Ngati -- Jennifer Gauthier -- Once Were Warriors -- Stuart Murray -- Section Three: The New Zealand Wars -- Introduction -- Annabel Cooper -- 'Magnificent Failure' or Subversive Triumph?: The Governor -- Trisha Dunleavy -- Making Nation: Utu -- Hester Joyce -- Ngā Pakanga Nunuiō Aotearoa/The New Zealand Wars -- Annabel Cooper -- Reconciling History inVincentWard's River Queen -- Cherie Lacey -- Section Four: Imaging the Nation -- Introduction -- Mark Derby -- Romantic New Zealand: 1920s and 1930s' NZ Government Publicity Office Travelogues -- Alfio Leotta -- From Colony to Nation in One Hundred Crowded Years: A Narrative on Civilisation,Progress and Modernity -- LarsWeckbecker -- Camera Natura -- Deane Williams -- Cinema of Unease -- Brenda Allen -- Seeing Red in 1949 and 1995 -- Alan Wright -- Section Five: War and Society -- Introduction -- Daniel Reynaud -- Breaker Morant -- Craig Wilcox -- Gallipoli -- Daniel Reynaud -- The Cowra Breakout -- Belinda Smaill -- War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us -- Gabrielle A. Fortune -- Revealing Revealing Gallipoli -- Peter Stanley -- Section Six: Stories of Adolescence -- Introduction -- Emma Hamilton -- Smiley -- Emma Hamilton.

The Devil's Playground: Coming-of-Age as National Cinema -- Josephine May -- Sex and Subculture: Bruce Beresford's Puberty Blues -- Lisa Featherstone -- Whale Rider -- Jennifer Gauthier -- Section Seven: Icons, Crime and the Imagination -- Introduction -- Michelle Arrow -- One Summer Again: The Dramatising of the Heidelberg School -- Billy Garner -- Witnessing Innocence: Fred Schepisi's Evil Angels -- Michelle Arrow -- An Angel at My Table -- Fincina Hopgood -- The Piano -- Harriet Margolis -- Heavenly Creatures: The 1954 Parker-Hulme Case -- James E. Bennett -- Ned Kelly (2003) -- Sarah Pinto -- Section Eight: Explorations of Gender and Sexuality -- Introduction -- Rebecca Beirne -- Dad and Dave Come to Town: Mr Entwhistle and Male Homosexuality -- Yorick Smaal -- My Brilliant Career -- Jill Roe -- Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters -- Scott McKinnon -- Love the Beast -- Kirsten Stevens -- Section Nine: Immigrants, Refugees and Multicultural Narratives -- Introduction -- Michelle Langford -- Who's the Weird Mob Anyway? Assimilation and Authenticity in They're A Weird Mob -- Jessica Carniel -- Illustrious Energy -- Brenda Allen -- Serenades -- Michelle Langford -- Pacific Solution: From Afghanistan to Aotearoa -- Annie Goldson -- Section Ten: Playing with the Past -- Introduction -- James E. Bennett -- Forgotten Silver -- Craig Hight -- Rosie's Secret -- Nancy Cushing -- Revisioning the Australian Outback House of 1861 -- Susan Hardy and Anthony Corones -- Living History: The Colony -- Claire Lowrie -- Index.