A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film

by Bruce Babington

Book Overview

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 M li s' New Zealand films of 1912, Tarr's Hinemoa, the first feature made by a New Zealander,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719075424
• ISBN13: 9780719075421
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"