Re-inventing New Zealand : essays on the arts and the media / by Roger Horrocks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horrocks, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural industries--New Zealand.

Cultural industries.

Arts, New Zealand.

New Zealand literature--History and criticism.

New Zealand literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Reinventing New Zealand

Place of Publication:

Pokeno : Atuanui Press, [2016]

Summary:

This book is the harvest of a lifetime of thinking about the arts and media in New Zealand by someone with a knowledge that combines industry practice with academic insight in a way that is unrivalled in New Zealand.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

The Invention of New Zealand

Off the Map

from 'Natural' as Only You Can Be: Some Readings of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry

Re-locating New Zealand

'Reading' and 'Gender': Watching Them Change

When Fringe Writers are 'Warmly Invited'

A Short History of 'The New Zealand Intellectual'

How to Create a Film Industry

New Zealand Cinema: Patterns of Evolution

Cultures, Policies, Films

Turbulent Television: The New Zealand Experiment

Documentaries on New Zealand Television

The Late Show: The Production of Film and Television Studies

John Reynolds: Painting, Planting and Performance

Julian Dashper and the Art of Misreading

Popular Productions

Tom Kreisler's Esoteric Pressure Systems

Leigh Davis: from Willy's Gazette to Nameless

'My Word My World': Len Lye's Poetry

Frederick Page: A Musician's Journal

Douglas Lilburn: Nationalism Now

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-431) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-9951268-0-1

OCLC:

1111437903