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Other library resource(s)
New Zealand cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286New 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 ScreenCelebrating 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 CommissionThe 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.
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 zealandThe call number range is PN 1993.5 .N43.
Introductory reading(s)
Directory of world cinema. Australia and New Zealand by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781841503738This 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. ...
Directory of world cinema. Australia and New Zealand 2 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781841506340Building 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. ...
Historical dictionary of Australian and New Zealand cinema by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A8 M66 2005ISBN: 9780810854598Whether 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. ...
A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 B33 2007ISBN: 9780719075421A 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. ...
Our own image: a story of a Moari filmmaker by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781452950020Acclaimed 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 titles
The cinema of Australia and New Zealand by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A8 C55 2007ISBN: 9781904764977From 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 byCall Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 F556 1992ISBN: 9780864732262
Governing visions of the real: the National Film Unit and Griersonian documentary film in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781783204953Governing 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.
New Zealand cinema: interpreting the past by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 N49 2011ISBN: 9781841504254New 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. ...
New Zealand filmmakers by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 N485 2007ISBN: 9780814330173This 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 journal articles
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.
Studies in Australasian cinema by Call Number: Electronic journalThis journal engages in critical discussion of cinema from the Australian, New Zealand and Pacific region.
Film & television literature index by Call Number: Electronic resourceUse this index to find articles about New Zealand cinema.
Screen studies collection by Call Number: Electronic resourceA 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.
The web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
Selected movie titles
Find more New Zealand films titles in the library's online catalog.
Boy by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #13536It'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.
Sweetie by Call Number: Jones Media DVD # 4637ISBN: 9781934121023The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between button-down, superstitious Kay, and her rampaging sister, 'Sweetie.'
Two cars, one night by Call Number: Streaming videoThree children in two cars, wait for their parents one night outside a rural pub. A little love story. (A live action short film)
What we do in the shadows by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #18983Vladislav, 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.