Subject Librarian
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Other library resource(s)
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New Zealand Cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by
Call Number: Electronic resourceNew 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)
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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.
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.
Introductory reading(s)
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A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 B33 2007ISBN: 0719075424A 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. ... -
Historical dictionary of Australian and New Zealand cinema by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .A8 M66 2005ISBN: 0810854597
Selected book titles
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The cinema of Australia and New Zealand by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .A8 C55 2007ISBN: 1904764967 -
Directory of world cinema. Australia & New Zealand by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .A8 D57 2010ISBN: 1841503738 -
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New Zealand cinema : interpreting the past by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .N43 N49 2011ISBN: 1841504254 -
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.
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Film & television literature index by
Call Number: Electronic resourceUse this index to find articles about New Zealand cinema.
Selected movie titles
For more New Zealand movie titles, click here.
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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: 1934121029The 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.