New Zealand Filmmakers
Edited by Ian Conrich and Stuart Murray
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series
Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Filmographies
- Introduction
- Stuart Murray and Ian Conrich
Part 1. Pioneers
- 1. Free Radical: The Life and Work of Len Lye
- Roger Horrocks
- 2. A Rough Island Story: The Film Life of Rudall Charles Hayward
- Sam Edwards and Stuart Murray
- 3. John O’Shea: A Poetics of Documentary
- Laurence Simmons
- 4. Between the Personal and the Political: Feminist Fables in the Films of Gaylene Preston
- Estella Tincknell
- 5. Images of Dignity: The Films of Barry Barclay
- Stuart Murray
- 6. Lives of Their Own: Films by Merata Mita
- Geraldene Peters
- 7. Ricordi! Peter Wells, Memories of a Queer Land
- David Gerstner
Part 2. The New Wave
- 8. Between the National and the International: The Films of Roger Donaldson
- James Chapman
- 9. Embodying the Commercial: Genre and Cultural Affect in the Films of Geoff Murphy
- Jonathan Rayne
- 10.“Kiwi as . . . ”: Ian Mune and Filmmaking as Cultural Expression
- Stan Jones
- 11. The Man Alone: Bruno Lawrence’s Screen Performances of the Kiwi Bloke
- Andrew Spicer
- 12. Working in Close-Up: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Performance, and Collaborative Film Production
- Barbara Cairns
- 13. Crisis and Conflict: The Films of John Laing
- Ian Conrich
- 14. “Carry Me Back”: Time and Place in the Films of John Reid
- Bruce Babington
Part 3. Visionaries and Fantasists
- 15. Leon Narbey: Art, Politics, and the Personal
- Helen Martin
- 16. Making Strange: Journeys through the Unfamiliar in the Films of Vincent Ward
- Stephanie Rains
- 17. Dislocations of Home and Gender in the Films of Jane Campion
- Eva Rueschmann
- 18. Experiments with Desire: The Psychodynamics of Alison Maclean
- Kirsten Moana Thompson
- 19. Bringing It All Back Home: The Films of Peter Jackson
- Barry Keith Grant
- 20. The Nightmare within the Everyday: The Horrific Visions of David Blyth
- Stacey Abbott
- Contributors
- Index