Contemporary New Zealand cinema from new wave to blockbuster (I.B. Tauris, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The New Zealand Film Commission : promoting an industry, forging a national identity / Gregory A. Waller -- Boom and bust : tax-driven film production in New Zealand in the 1980s / Nick Roddick -- The short film : issues of funding and distribution / Alex Cole-Baker -- The role of marketing in the New Zealand feature film / Suzette Major -- New Zealand film censorship / Chris Watson -- 'With a strong sense of place' : the New Zealand film archive/Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Tanoga Whitiahua / Sarah Davy and Diane Pivac -- The space between : screen representations of the New Zealand small town / Ian Conrich -- Beyond materialism? Spirituality and neo-utopian sensibility in recent New Zealand film / Ann Hardy -- The adaptation of New Zealand literature to film : a case-study approach / Brian McDonnell -- The contested nation : documentary and dissent / Annie Goldson and Jo Smith -- 'Precarious adulthood' : communal anxieties in 1980s film / Stuart Murray -- A waka on the wild side : nationalism and its discontents in some recent New Zealand films / Mark Williams -- 'He iwi kotahi tatou?' Nationalism and cultural identity in Maori film / Michelle Keown -- The kiwi bloke : the representation of Pakeha masculinity in New Zealand film / Russell Campbell -- Imparied and ill at ease : New Zealand's cinematics of disability / Angela Marie Smith