Filming the colonial past : the New Zealand wars on screen / Annabel Cooper.

"The New Zealand Wars were defining events in the nation's history. Filming the Colonial Past, an engaging new book from Annabel Cooper, tells a story of filmmakers' fascination with these conflicts over the past 90 years. From silent screen to smartphone, and from Pākehā adventurers to young Māori...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Annabel (Author)
Language:English
Published: Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > New Zealand > History.
Motion picture industry > New Zealand > History.
Motion pictures > Production and direction > New Zealand > History.
Māori (New Zealand people) in motion pictures > History.
New Zealand > In motion pictures.
New Zealand > Race relations > History.
New Zealand > History > New Zealand Wars, 1843-1847.
New Zealand > History > New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872.
Toi whakaari.
Kiriata.
Hunga mahi toi.
Kōrero nehe.
Pakanga.
Noho-ā-iwi.
Ngā Pakanga Whenua o Mua.
Taipūwhenuatanga.
Colonization.
Māori (New Zealand people) > Warfare.
Māori (New Zealand people) > Wars.
Motion picture industry.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Production and direction.
Race relations.
New Zealand.
1800-1999
History.
Military history.
Genre:
History.
Military history.
Physical Description:322 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 x 25 cm
Variant Title:
New Zealand wars on screen
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Hayward in The Bay of Plenty: The silent Rewi's Last Stand and The Te Kooti Trail
  • Hayward in the Waipā: Rewi's Last Stand in the sound era
  • Wars in the living room: The Killing of Kane and The Governor
  • The Pūhā western: Utu
  • Documentary adventures: The New Zealand Wars
  • Television histories in uncertain times: Greenstone, Von Tempsky's Ghost and Frontier of Dreams
  • Aftermath and memory: In Spring One Plants Alone and Rain of the Children
  • Encounter, romance and conflict: River Queen
  • Māori creative control and new screens
  • Conclusion.