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Coming-of-age cinema in New Zealand : genre, gender and adaptation /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Traditions in world cinema.
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| 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).