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Bruce Babington analyses the achievement of one of the central
partnerships in British film history, the screenwriters of famous
films by Hitchcock and Carol Reed, who became the
producer-writer-directors of a succession of famous and well-loved
films including Millions Like Us, Two Thousand Women, Waterloo
Road, The Rake's Progress, I See a Dark Stranger, The Blue Lagoon
and The Happiest Days of Your Life. This study of the pair is
notable both for its contextualising of them within English and
British culture over four decades, including British cinema's
'golden age' of the war and immediate post-war years, and for its
close reading of films that have been critically neglected, despite
their popularity. Scholarly but not pedantic, the book shows its
subjects to be not ordinary mainstream practitioners but
deceptively serious filmmakers registering the 'ideological
weather' of wartime and post-war Britain in engaging and creative
ways. -- .
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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Deals analytically with the fascinating topic of the great film
stars (and some thought-provoking lesser ones) of the British
cinema, from Alma Taylor and Ivor Novello in the Silent period, up
to the present day. Looks both at stars who attained worldwide fame
through the Hollywood cinema, and those whose contribution is
primarily to the national cinema.. First collection of essays on
the subject with a wide historical coverage including major
figures, such as Connery, Mason, Trevor Howard, Deborah Kerr, Mary
Millington, Albert Finney and James Mason. Major figures in UK film
studies have contributed, including Marcia Landy, Andrew Higson,
Peter Evans, Charles Barr, Pam Cook and Andy Medhurst. -- .
With the huge global success of Hollywood 'family film' franchises,
such as Harry Potter, it is unsurprising that there have been many
attempts to emulate this success. In recent years, there has been
an explosion in international production of films for both adults
and children - resulting in an erosion of the dominance of The
Disney Company and the other major Hollywood Studios in family film
production. "Family Films in Global Cinema" is the first serious
examination of films for child and family audiences in a global
context. Whereas most previous studies of children's films and
family films have concerned themselves with Disney, this book
encompasses both live-action and animated films from the Hollywood,
British, Australian, East German, Russian, Indian, Japanese and
Brazilian cinemas. As well as examining international family films
previously ignored by scholars, the collection also presents a
fresh perspective on familiar movies such as "The Railway
Children," "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "Babe," and the "Harry
Potter" series.
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New Zealand Filmmakers (Paperback)
Ian Conrich, Stuart Murray; Contributions by Stacey Abbott, Bruce Babington, Terence Bayler, …
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This 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.The book displays the diversity of filmmaking in New
Zealand and highlights the specific industrial, aesthetic, and
cultural concerns that have created a film culture of international
significance. With the majority of the contributions in the book
containing analysis developed through dialogue with the filmmakers,
""New Zealand Filmmakers"" is an authoritative study of the film
industry in New Zealand. Each essay also includes a thorough and
definitive filmography, detailing the full nature of the work
produced by each individual, with key titles highlighted.Filmmakers
covered in this volume include Barry Barclay, David Blyth, Jane
Campion, Roger Donaldson, Rudall Hayward, Peter Jackson, John
Laing, Bruno Lawrence, Len Lye, Alison Maclean, Merata Mita, Ian
Mune, Geoff Murphy, Leon Narbey, John O'Shea, Gaylene Preston, John
Reid, Vincent Ward, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, and Peter Wells. This
collection is illustrated with 50 film prints, many of which have
never before been published. With the New Zealand film industry
poised to become a center of film production and already a major
topic of critical interest, this volume will find many interested
readers among film scholars and educators.
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