Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand
genre, gender and adaptation
$80.85
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
4 June 2019
Summary
This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand’s national cinema, tracing its development and elucidating its role in cultural change. With chapters on landmark films like An Angel at My Table, Heavenly Creatures, Once Were Warriors and Boy, this book explores the influence of the French New Wave and European art cinema, and examines the dialogue between national cinema and a nation’s literature. Looking at the characteristics of an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474429450 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474429459 |
| Series: | Traditions in World Cinema |
| Author: | Alistair Fox |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 410g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Alistair Fox
Alistair Fox is Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago. He has published widely on topics in both literature and cinema, and most recently is the author of Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (2011), Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature (2016), and Coming of Age Cinema in New Zealand (EUP, 2017).
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