| Description |
350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: the historical film in New Zealand cinema / Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant and Hilary Radner -- Rudall Hayward and the cinema of Maoriland: genre-mixing and counter-discourses in rewi's last stand (1925), The te kooti trail (1927) and rewi's last stand/ The last stand (1940) / Alistair Fox -- Rudall Hayward's democratic cinema and the "civilising mission" in the "land of the wrong white crowd" / Michelle Smith -- Western, New Zealand history and commercial exploitation: The te kooti trail, utu and crooked earth / Harriet Margolis -- Unsettled historiography: postcolonial anxiety and the burden of the past in pictures / Cherie Lacey -- Cross-currents: river queen's national and trans-national heritages / Olivia Macassey -- Tracking Titokowaru over text and screen: pakeha narrate the warrior, 1906-2005 / Annabel Cooper -- Rites of passage in post-second world war New Zealand cinema: migrating the masculine in journey for three (1950) / Simon Sigley -- Cinema and the interpretation of 1950s New Zealand history: John O'Shea and Roger Mirams, broken barrier (1952) / Barbara Brookes -- Re-representing indigeneity: approaches to history in some recent New Zealand and Australian films / Janet Wilson -- "The Donations of history": Mauri and the transfigured "Maori gaze": towards a bi-national cinema in aotearoa / Bruce Harding -- History, hybridity and indeterminate space: the Parker-Hulme murder, heavenly creatures and New Zealand cinema / Alison L. McKee -- Screening women's histories: Jane Campion and the New Zealand heritage film, from the biopic to the female gothic / Hilary Radner -- Time and the place: music and costume and the "affect" of history in the New Zealand films of Jane Campion / Estella Tincknell -- Mining for forgotten gold: Leon Narbey's illustrious energy (1987) / Bruce Babington |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-335, filmography (pages [305]-320, and index |
| Subject |
Historical films -- New Zealand -- History and criticism.
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Maori in motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- New Zealand -- History.
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| Author |
Fox, Alistair.
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Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
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Radner, Hilary.
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| LC no. |
2012545999 |
| ISBN |
9781841504254 |
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1841504254 |
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