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Book SynopsisA history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, for all its difference, can only be understood through the past: Gaston Méliès'' New Zealand films of 1912, Tarr''s Hinemoa, the first feature made by a New Zealander, early Australian film makers'' use of New Zealand for an Australasian audience, the English and American made ''Maoriland'' films of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and the crucial works of New Zealand film''s two great father figures, Rudall Hayward and John O''Shea. Such cornerstones of the national cinema as The Te Kooti Trail, My Lady of the Cave, Rewi''s Last Stand (1940), Broken Barrier, Runaway and Don''t Let It Get You are analysed in detail. Babington surveys the internationally popular films of recent years, from Murphy''
Table of Contents1. Introduction: the New Zealand feature fiction film: history, theory, practice
2. Forgotten nitrate: feature film making in New Zealand 1912-1936
3. Fifty years a pioneer: the films of Rudall Hayward
4. The age of O’Shea
5. Living white males: New Zealand cinema 1975-1985
6. ‘world famous in New Zealand’ : New Zealand cinema 1986-2005
7. Wandering stars: New Zealand cinema on the world stage - Ward, Jackson, Campion
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