- 260 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Part 1 The Coming-of-age Genre and National Cinema
- 1. The Coming-of-age Film as a Genre: Attributes, Evolution, and Functions
- 2. New Zealand Coming-of-age Films: Distinctive Characteristics and Thematic Preoccupations
- Part 2 The New Zealand New Wave: 1976-89
- 3. The Formation of a Budding Man Alone: The God Boy (Murray Reece, 1976)
- 4. An Angry Young Man Seeks to Justify Himself: Sleeping Dogs (Roger Donaldson, 1977)
- 5. An Immigrant Filmmaker Substitutes an Alternative Vision of Adolescence: The Scarecrow
- 6. Art-cinema, Cultural Dislocation, and the Entry into Puberty: Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984)
- 7. A Maori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns - Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint
- Part 3 The Second Wave of the 1990s
- 8. Creativity as a Haven: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)
- 9. Desperation Turned Outwards: Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)
- 10. Confronting Domestic Violence and Familial Abuse: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994)
- Part 4 Preoccupations of the New Millennium
- 11. An Adolescent Girl Experiments with Sexuality: Rain (Christine Jeffs, 2001)
- 12. Asserting Feminist Claims within Maori Culture: Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2002)
- 13. Family Secrets and Their Destructive Consequences: In My Fatherâs Den (Brad McGann, 2004)
- 14. A Gay Boy Comes to Terms with His Sexuality: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (Stewart Main, 2005)
- Part 5 Perspectives on Maori Culture since 2010
- 15. Parental Abandonment and the Trauma of Loss: Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010)
- 16. A Maori Boy Contests the Old Patriarchal Order: Mahana (Lee Tamahori, 2016)
- 17. Delinquency and Bicultural Relations: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index