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Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand
Genre, Gender and Adaptation
by Alistair Fox
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Book Presentation:
Examines the coming-of-age genre – its themes, stylistic characteristics and cultural function in New Zealand’s national cinema
This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand’s national cinema, tracing its development and elucidating its role in cultural change. With chapters on landmark films like An Angel at My Table, Heavenly Creatures, Once Were Warriors and Boy, this book explores the influence of the French New Wave and European art cinema, and examines the dialogue between national cinema and a nation’s literature. Looking at the characteristics of an indigenous “Fourth Cinema,” as well as different perspectives on gendered and sexual identities, Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand considers the evidence that these films provide of significant cultural shifts that have taken place or are in the process of taking place as New Zealanders’ discover their emerging national identity.
Case studies include:
• The God Boy (Murray Reece, 1976)
• Sleeping Dogs (Roger Donaldson, 1977)
• The Scarecrow (Sam Pillsbury, 1982)
• Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984)
• Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)
• An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)
• Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)
• Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994)
• Rain (Christine Jeffs, 2001)
• Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2002)
• In My Father’s Den (Brad McGann, 2004)
• 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (Stewart Main, 2005)
• Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010)
• Mahana (Lee Tamahori, 2016)
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016)
About the Author:
Alistair Fox is Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago. He has published widely on topics in both literature and cinema, and most recently is the author of Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (2011), Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature (2016), and Coming of Age Cinema in New Zealand (EUP, 2017).
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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New Zealand Film and Television (2011)
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A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film (2007)
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