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Contemporary New Zealand Cinema - From New Wave to Blockbuster

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.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. This title provides an analysis of this fascinating industry. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

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Authors Ian Conrich, Ian Murray Conrich, Stuart Murray
Assisted by Ian Conrich (Editor), Ian (University of Vienna Conrich (Editor), Stuart Murray (Editor), Julian Ross (Editor)
Publisher Tauris, I.B.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 24.09.2008
 
EAN 9781845118372
ISBN 978-1-84511-837-2
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 156 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
Series Tauris World Cinema Series
Tauris World Cinema (Paperback
Tauris World Cinema Series
Tauris World Cinema (Paperback
World Cinema
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

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