Contemporary New Zealand Cinema

From New Wave to Blockbuster
Herausgeber: Conrich, Ian; Nagib, Lúcia; Murray, Stuart; Ross, Julian

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Produktbeschreibung

Since New Zealand Cinema burst on to the global stage in the late 1970s, it has maintained a high-profile presence, capturing the imagination and enthusiasm of both national and international audiences, through such films as "Vigil", "Whale Rider" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. "Contemporary New Zealand Cinema" provides an astute and definitive analysis of this fascinating industry. Focusing on industrial and commercial concerns, questions of aesthetics and form, and the cultural debates surrounding nation and identity, the book surveys the full range of filmmaking in New Zealand.It displays the rich diversity of film production in the country, and in doing so highlights a number of specific contexts - Maori, documentary and short filmmaking, literary adaptations, the development of the national Film Commission and Archive, marketing and censorship, in addition to explorations into the place of bicultural relations, spirituality, masculinity and disability - that have created a cinema of global significance. Featuring critical accounts of internationally-acclaimed features like "The Piano" and "Once Were Warriors", as well as the growth of the national infrastructure that made such films possible, "Contemporary New Zealand Cinema" is the most thorough study available of a vibrant filmmaking culture. The book also includes a fully comprehensive filmography detailing all New Zealand feature and television films.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9781845118372
• ISBN-10: 1845118375
• Artikelnr.: 25085041

Autorenporträt

Ian Conrich is Director of the Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. Stuart Murray is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations vii 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