"'This collection is a timely summary of one of the world's youngest film cultures and reflects the vibrancy, resourcefulness and heart of New Zealand filmmaking. A valuable resource.' Gaylene Preston, New Zealand's Filmmaker Laureate 2001 'Comprehensive, provocative and fascinating, this volume is a must for film scholars around the globe who are interested in the unique, challenging and engaging national cinema of New Zealand.' Professor Barbara Creed, University of Melbourne"
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
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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
The World Cinema series aims to reveal and celebrate the richness and complexity of film art across the globe, exploring a wide variety of cinemas set within their own cultures and as they interconnect in a global context. Books in the series represent innovative scholarship, in tune with the multicultural character of contemporary audiences. Drawing upon an international authorship, they challenge outdated conceptions of world cinema, and provide new ways of understanding a field at the centre of film studies in an era of transnational networks.
Series Editors
Professor Lúcia Nagib, University of Reading: l.nagib@reading.ac.uk
Dr Julian Ross, Leiden University: j.a.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Advisory Board
Professor Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Professor Robert Stam, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USA
Ismail Xavier, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Dudley Andrew, Yale University, USA
Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury:
Veidehi Hans - veidehi.hans@bloomsbury.com