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  4. Film Studies: National Cinemas
  5. New Zealand

Film Studies: National Cinemas

This guide highlights selected resources for various national cinemas.
  • Introduction
  • Streaming services
  • Afghanistan
  • Africa (General)
    • Africa, Northern
    • Africa, French speaking
    • Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Benelux
  • Brazil
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
    • Quebec
  • Caribbean area
  • Chile
  • Chinese cinema
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Czechia (Czech Republic)
  • France
  • Germany
  • Great Britain
    • Northern Ireland
    • Scotland
    • Wales
  • Greece
  • Hong Kong cinema
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Indigenous films
  • Irish cinema
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Middle East
    • Egypt
    • Iran
    • Israel
    • Turkey
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Nordic cinema
    • Denmark
    • Finland
    • Iceland
    • Norway
    • Sweden
  • Pakistan
  • Palestine
    • Films by Director
    • Documentaries
    • Films by Title
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia & the Soviet Union
  • Slovakia
  • South Africa
  • South America
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • United States
    • Puerto Rico
  • Vietnam
  • Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslav Republics
  • Transnational & diasporic cinema
  • Journals & magazines about film

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Other library resource(s)

  • Resource logo New Zealand cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Alistair Fox
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    New Zealand cinema, despite the relatively small number of feature films produced, has received much international attention, acquiring a reputation as often punching above its weight. Since A Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (directed by Sam Neill and Judy Rymer, 1995), it has frequently been viewed as distinguished by dark undertones; the representation of perturbed states of mind; the depiction of familial, social, and political dysfunction; ...

Internet resource(s)

  • National Film Unit Collection from NZ on Screen
    • Video
    • Link
    Celebrating the 75th anniversary of government filmmakers the National Film Unit, this collection pulls highlights from the 370+ wartime newsreels, tourism promos and Oscar nominees from the NFU which can be watched on NZ On Screen. ...
  • New Zealand Film Commission
    • Link
    The NZFC has the statutory responsibility "to encourage, participate and assist in the making, promotion, distribution and exhibition of films" made in New Zealand by New Zealanders on New Zealand subjects.
  • NZ on Screen = Iwi Whitiāhua
    • Video
    • Link
    NZ On Screen is the online showcase of NZ television, film, music video and web series. All content is free to view – over 4,500 titles from the beginning of the screen industry to the present day to watch and enjoy. ...

Introduction to cinema in New Zealand

Hinemoa (1914), widely regarded as New Zealand’s earliest feature film, has as its main characters indigenous Maori people, introducing a theme that has since re-emerged in films that map changes in relations between Maori and Pakeha (New Zealanders of European descent), including Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994) and Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2003). New Zealand has a long history of documentary filmmaking, with the formation in 1941 of the state-backed National Film Unit, inspired by the National Film Board of Canada. This tradition has continued in activist and campaigning documentaries such as Punitive Damage (Annie Goldson, 1999), about a New Zealander killed in East Timor. Feature production has been less prominent, though since the 1970s there has been some expansion in this area, with annual production now standing at over twenty films, including co-productions. The New Zealand Film Commission, created in 1978, is tasked with promoting production, distribution, and exhibition of ‘distinctively New Zealand’ films, offering tax incentives for local productions.  ...

Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). New Zealand, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 May. 2021

In the Library's Collection

There are several subject headings you can use to find resources in the online catalog. The call number ranges are also included. These can be found on Baker Stack Level 4.

  • motion pictures new zealand
    The call number range is PN 1993.5 .N43 on Baker Stacks Level 4.
  • motion pictures new zealand history
  • motion picture producers and directors new zealand
  • maori (new zealand people) in motion pictures

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover art Directory of world cinema. Australia and New Zealand by Ben Goldsmith; Geoff Lealand, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A8 D57 2010
    ISBN: 9781841503738
    This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand and offers an in-depth and exciting look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century. Though the two nations share considerable cultural and economic connections, their film industries remain distinct, marked by differences of scale, level of government involvement and funding, and relations with other countries and national cinemas. ...
  • Cover Art Directory of world cinema. Australia and New Zealand 2 by Ben Goldsmith; Mark David Ryan; Geoff Lealand, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781841506340
    Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first installment of Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand, this volume continues the exploration of the cinema produced in Australia and New Zealand since the beginning of the twentieth century. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of the locations that feature prominently in the countries' cinema. Essays by leading critics and film scholars consider the significance of the outback and the beach in films, which are evoked as a liminal space in Long Weekend and a symbol of death in Heaven's Burning, among other films. ...
  • Cover art Historical dictionary of Australian and New Zealand cinema by Albert Moran; Errol Vieth
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A8 M66 2005
    ISBN: 9780810854598
    Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand. With entries on many exceptional producers, directors, writers and actors, as well as the films indicated above and many others, it also presents the early pioneers, the film companies and government bodies, and much more in its hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries. ...
  • Cover art A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film by Bruce Babington
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 B33 2007
    ISBN: 9780719075421
    A 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. ...
  • Cover art Our own image: a story of a Moari filmmaker by Barry Barclay
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781452950020
    Acclaimed Maori filmmaker Barry Barclay’s Our Own Image relates the experiences of making his documentaries and his critically acclaimed feature-length film Ngati (1987), widely credited as the first fiction feature by a member of an indigenous community. Barclay details his views on the process of filmmaking within his own Maori community and discusses how his work differed from popular cinema, advocating for indigenous control, participation, and perspectives in media. ...

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover art The cinema of Australia and New Zealand by Keith Beattie; Geoff Mayer, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A8 C55 2007
    ISBN: 9781904764977
    From The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906 to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Australia and New Zealand have made a unique impact on international cinema. This book celebrates the commercially successful narrative feature films produced by these cultures as well as key documentaries, shorts, and independent films. It also invokes issues involving national identity, race, history, and the ability of two small film cultures to survive the economic and cultural threat of Hollywood. ...
  • Film in Aotearoa, New Zealand by Jonathan Dennis & Jan Bieringa, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 F556 1992
    ISBN: 9780864732262
  • Cover art The fourth eye: Māori media in Aotearoa New Zealand by Brendan Hokowhitu; Vijay Devadas, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry DU 423 .A1 F67 2013
    ISBN: 9780816681044
    From the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Indigenous and settler cultures to the emergence of the first-ever state-funded Māori television network, New Zealand has been a hotbed of Indigenous concerns. Given its history of colonization, coping with biculturalism is central to New Zealand life. Much of this "bicultural drama" plays out in the media and is molded by an anxiety surrounding the ongoing struggle over citizenship rights that is seated within the politics of recognition. The Fourth Eye brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to provide a critical and comprehensive account of the intricate and complex relationship between the media and Māori culture. ...
  • Cover Art Governing visions of the real: the National Film Unit and Griersonian documentary film in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Lars Weckbecker
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781783204953
    Governing Visions of the Real traces the emergence, development, and techniques of Griersonian documentary--named for pioneering Scottish filmmaker John Grierson--in New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Paying close attention to the productions of the National Film Unit in the 1940s and '50s, Lars Weckbecker follows the shifting practices and governmentality of documentary's "visions of the real" as New Zealand and its population--particularly workers and its indigenous population--came to be envisioned through NFU film for an ensemble of political, pedagogic, and propagandistic purposes.
  • Cover art New Zealand cinema: interpreting the past by Alistair Fox; Barry Keith Grant; Hilary Radner, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 N49 2011
    ISBN: 9781841504254
    New Zealand has produced one of the world?s most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country's evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features like The Te Kooti Trail to recent films such as River Queen, this book examines the role of the cinema of New Zealand in building a shared sense of national identity. The works of key directors, including Peter Jackson, Jane Campion, and Vincent Ward, are here introduced in a new light, and select films are given in-depth coverage. ...
  • Cover art New Zealand filmmakers by Ian Conrich; Stuart Murray
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 N485 2007
    ISBN: 9780814330173
    This volume contains twenty in-depth studies of prominent New Zealand directors, producers, actors, and cinematographers. New Zealand Filmmakers outlines and examines three major constituent groups who are responsible for the industry as it appears today: those involved in pioneering film in New Zealand, those associated with the New Wave of the 1970s and 1980s, and those post-mid-1980s visionaries and fantasists who have produced striking individual productions. A comprehensive introduction situates the New Zealand film industry in cultural, historical, and ideological contexts. ...

Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)

Articles and other writings about Australasia film can be found in many publications. Our collections include journals which look exclusively at New Zealand film. You can also use Film & Television Literature Index to find more articles or use the search box at the top of the page.

  • On film (Wellington, N.Z.) by ONFILM Magazine
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Coverage is from 2003 through 2013.
  • Issue cover art Studies in Australasian cinema by Taylor & Francis
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    This journal engages in critical discussion of cinema from the Australian, New Zealand and Pacific region.
  • Resource logo Film & television literature index by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Use this index to find articles about New Zealand cinema.
  • Resource logo Screen studies collection by ProQuest
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
  • Resource logo The web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Selected movie title(s)

Find more New Zealand films titles in the library's online catalog.

  • Movie poster art Boy by Whenua Films
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #13536
    It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king-even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before.
  • Cover art Sweetie by Jane Campion
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD # 4637
    ISBN: 9781934121023
    The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between button-down, superstitious Kay, and her rampaging sister, 'Sweetie.'
  • Movie poster art Two cars, one night by Taika Waititi
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    Three children in two cars, wait for their parents one night outside a rural pub. A little love story. (A live action short film)
  • Movie poster art What we do in the shadows by Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #18983
    Vladislav, Viago, and Deacon are vampires who live here, among us. They are real vampires; undead, immortal creatures who stalk the night and search for human blood, preferably virgins. Witness the many horrid, abominable aspects of vampire life, such as hunting and feeding, vampire rivalry and fighting with werewolves, as well as normal night to night aspects that make them not so different from us like keeping the flat clean, jobs, shopping, meeting people and trying to fit in.

Keeping up with the journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for a national or regional cinema? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

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