Overview

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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Author:   Alistair Fox (Emeritus Professor, University of Otago)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9781474429450

ISBN 10:   1474429459
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   26 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Part 1. The Coming-of-Age Genre and National Cinema Chapter 1. The Coming-of-Age Film as a Genre: Attributes, Evolution, and Functions Chapter 2. New Zealand Coming-of-Age Films: Distinctive Characteristics and Thematic Preoccupations Part 2. The New Zealand New Wave: 1976-1989 Chapter 3. The Formation of a Budding Man Alone: The God Boy (Murray Reece, 1976) Chapter 4. An Angry Young Man Seeks to Justify Himself: Sleeping Dogs (Ian Donaldson, 1977) Chapter 5. An Immigrant Filmmaker Substitutes an Alternative Vision of Adolescence: The Scarecrow (Sam Pillsbury, 1982) Chapter 6. Art-Cinema, Cultural Dislocation, and the Entry into Puberty: Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984) Chapter 7. A Māori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns – Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)　 Part 3. The Second Wave of the 1990s Chapter 8. Creativity as a Haven: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990) Chapter 9. Desperation Turned Outwards: Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994) Chapter 10. Confronting Domestic Violence and Familial Abuse: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994) Part 4. Preoccupations of the New Millennium Chapter 11. An Adolescent Girl Experiments with Sexuality: Rain (Christine Jeffs, 2001) Chapter 12. Asserting Feminist Claims within Maori Culture: Whale Rider (Nicki Caro, 2002) Chapter 13. Family Secrets and Their Destructive Consequences: In My Father's Den (Brad McGann, 2004) Chapter 14. A Gay Boy Comes to Terms with His Sexuality: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (Stewart Main, 2005) Part 5. Perspectives on Māori Culture since 2010 Chapter 15. Parental Abandonment and the Trauma of Loss: Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010) Chapter 16. A Māori Boy Contests the Old Patriarchal Order: Mahana (Lee Tamahori, 2016) Chapter 17. Delinquency and Bicultural Relations: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016) Conclusion Bibliography Index

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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).

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