Coming-of-age cinema in New Zealand : genre, gender and adaptation /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fox, Alistair (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Colección:Traditions in world cinema.
Temas:
Coming-of-age films > New Zealand > History and criticism.
Films de passage à l'âge adulte > Nouvelle-Zélande > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Coming-of-age films
New Zealand
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The coming-of-age film as a genre: attributes, evolution, and functions
  • New Zealand coming-of-age films: distinctive characteristics and thematic preoccupations
  • The formation of a budding man alone: The God Boy (Murray Reece, 1976)
  • An angry young man seeks to justify himself: Sleeping Dogs (Ian Donaldson, 1977)
  • An immigrant filmmaker substitutes an alternative vision of adolescence: The Scarecrow Man (Sam Pillsbury, 1982)
  • Art-cinema, cultural dislocation, and the entry into puberty: Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984)
  • A Māori girl watches, listens, and learns
  • coming of age from an Indigenous viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)
  • Creativity as a haven: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)
  • Desperation turned outwards: Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)
  • Confronting domestic violence and familial abuse: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994)
  • An adolescent girl experiments with sexuality: Rain (Christine Jeffs, 2001)
  • Asserting feminist claims within Māori culture: Whale Rider (Nicki Caro, 2002)
  • Family secrets and their destructive consequences: In My Father's Den (Brad McGann, 2004)
  • A gay boy comes to terms with his sexuality: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (Stewart Main, 2005)
  • Parental abandonment and the trauma of loss: Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010)
  • A Māori boy contests the old patriarchal order: Mahana (Lee Tamahori, 2016)
  • Delinquency and bicultural relations: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016).

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