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 Melies' 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. Such cornerstones of the national cinema as The Te
Kooti Trail, My Lady of the Cave, Rewi's Last Stand (1940), Broken
Barrier, Runaway and Don't Let It Get You are analysed in detail.
Babington surveys the internationally popular films of recent
years, from Murphy's and Donaldson's, through to those of Reid,
Preston, Campion, Ward, Jackson, Caro, Jeffs, Sinclair, Barclay and
others, along with recent low-cost digitals, and Maori feature film
making, allowing the book to become a reference map of the cinema,
its genres, and its preoccupations, while at the same time giving
fascinating detailed analysis of important texts. A history of the
New Zealand fiction feature film is essential reading for all
students and followers of New Zealand cinema as well as those
interested in the local post-colonial culture and its products. --
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