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New Zealand film : an illustrated history / edited by Diane Pivac with Frank Stark and Lawrence McDonald.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Wellington, N.Z. : Te Papa Press, 2011.Description: 346 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm + 1 DVDISBN:
  • 9781877385667 (hbk.)
  • 1877385662 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.N43 N484 2011
Contents:
Magic of moving pictures, 1895-1918 / Chris Pugsley -- Rise of fiction: between the wars / Diane Pivac -- Non-fiction films: between the wars / Clive Sowry -- Political and alternative film making, 1940 to 1950 / Geraldene Peters -- From Holland to Holyoake: film in the 1950s and 1960s / Lawrence McDonald -- Waking from a fretful sleep: film in the 1970s / Lawrence McDonald -- Boom times: the early 1980s / Bruce Babington -- After the boom: the second half of the 1980s / Frank Stark -- New currents in the mainstream: the 1990s / Ann Hardy -- 'Jackson effect': the late 1990s to 2005 / Geoff Lealand -- Into the blue: film making in the early twenty-first century / Frank Stark.
Awards:
  • New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012 Illustrated Non-Fiction Finalist.
Summary: "The first comprehensive New Zealand film history ever published, this book celebrates 115 years of cinema in Aotearoa, from the earliest silent movies of the 1890s to Kiwi classics from the 1970s and 1980s to Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning wide-screen epics."--Back cover.
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Non-Fiction - New Zealand Non-Fiction - New Zealand Pop-Up Library POP-Stack Non Fiction 791.43 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available POP-STACK A0061623X

"In association with the Film Archive."

Accompanied by DVD of selected films from the Film Archive, compiled by Diane McAllen and Mark Sweeney.

Includes bibliographical references (312-327) and index.

Magic of moving pictures, 1895-1918 / Chris Pugsley -- Rise of fiction: between the wars / Diane Pivac -- Non-fiction films: between the wars / Clive Sowry -- Political and alternative film making, 1940 to 1950 / Geraldene Peters -- From Holland to Holyoake: film in the 1950s and 1960s / Lawrence McDonald -- Waking from a fretful sleep: film in the 1970s / Lawrence McDonald -- Boom times: the early 1980s / Bruce Babington -- After the boom: the second half of the 1980s / Frank Stark -- New currents in the mainstream: the 1990s / Ann Hardy -- 'Jackson effect': the late 1990s to 2005 / Geoff Lealand -- Into the blue: film making in the early twenty-first century / Frank Stark.

"The first comprehensive New Zealand film history ever published, this book celebrates 115 years of cinema in Aotearoa, from the earliest silent movies of the 1890s to Kiwi classics from the 1970s and 1980s to Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning wide-screen epics."--Back cover.

"Suitable for mature audiences 16 years of age and over"--Back cover.

New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012 Illustrated Non-Fiction Finalist.

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