A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film write by Bruce Babington. This book was released on 2007. A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, for all its difference, can only be understood through the past. The book manages the feat of providing a reference map of the cinema, its genres, and its preoccupations, while at the same time giving fascinating detailed analysis of important texts. A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film is essential reading for all students and followers of New Zealand cinema as well as those interested in the local post-colonial culture and its products.
A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film
A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film write by Bruce Babington. This book was released on 2007. A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, for all its difference, can only be understood through the past. The book manages the feat of providing a reference map of the cinema, its genres, and its preoccupations, while at the same time giving fascinating detailed analysis of important texts. A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film is essential reading for all students and followers of New Zealand cinema as well as those interested in the local post-colonial culture and its products.
Eye of the Taika
Eye of the Taika - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eye of the Taika write by Matthew Bannister. This book was released on 2021-10-19. Eye of the Taika available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Innovative study of Taika Waititi, whose Maori and Jewish roots influence his distinctive New Zealand comedic style. Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi's feature films and places his other works and performances—short films, TV series, advertisements, music videos, and media appearances—in the fabric of popular culture. The book's thesis is that Waititi's playful comic style draws on an ironic reading of NZ identity as Antipodean camp, a style which reflects NZ's historic status as colonial underdog. The first four chapters of Eye of the Taika explore Waititi's early life and career, the history of New Zealand and its film industry, the history of local comedy and its undervaluation in favor of more "serious" art, and ethnicity in New Zealand comedy. Bannister then focuses on Waititi's films, beginning with Eagle vs Shark (2007) and its place in "New Geek Cinema," despite being an outsider even in this realm. Bannister uses Boy (2010) to address the "comedian comedy," arguing that Waititi is a comedic entertainer before being a director. With What We Do in The Shadows(2014), Bannister explores Waititi's use of the vampire as the archetypal immigrant struggling to fit into mainstream society, under the guise of a mockumentary. Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople(2016), Bannister argues, is a family-friendly, rural-based romp that plays on and ironizes aspects of Aotearoa/New Zealand identity. Thor: Ragnarok(2017) launched Waititi into the Hollywood realm, while introducing a Polynesian perspective on Western superhero ideology. Finally, Bannister addresses Jojo Rabbit (2019) as an "anti-hate satire" and questions its quality versus its topicality and timeliness in Hollywood. By viewing Waititi's career and filmography as a series of pranks, Bannister identifies Waititi's playful balance between dominant art worlds and emergent postcolonial innovations, New Zealand national identity and indigenous Aotearoan (and Jewish) roots, and masculinity and androgyny. Eye of the Taika is intended for film scholars and film lovers alike.
New Zealand Film
New Zealand Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Zealand Film write by Diane Pivac. This book was released on 2011. New Zealand Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The first comprehensive New Zealand film history ever published, this book celebrates 115 years of cinema in Aotearoa, from the earliest silent movies of the 1890s to Kiwi classics from the 1970s and 1980s to Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning wide-screen epics."--Back cover.
Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand write by Ben Goldsmith. This book was released on 2010-12-15. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand and offers an in-depth and exciting look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century. Though the two nations share considerable cultural and economic connections, their film industries remain distinct, marked by differences of scale, level of government involvement and funding and relations with other countries and national cinemas. Through essays about prominent genres and themes, profiles of directors and comprehensive reviews of significant titles, this user-friendly guide explores the diversity and distinctiveness of films from Australia and New Zealand from Whale Rider to The Piano to Wolf Creek.
