'Boy' and the postcolonial taniwha / by Misha Kavka and Stephen Turner

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Title

'Boy' and the postcolonial taniwha / by Misha Kavka and Stephen Turner

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National Library of New Zealand

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Index New Zealand

Description

Examines the filmic device with which the film negotiates its audience and achieves its wide appeal. Addresses the infrastructural conditions of the film's production as manifested in figurative form by what the authors call the 'postcolonial taniwha', an opaque figure which recalls the characteristics of a Māori taniwha but is a creature of postcolonial history that works to occlude the attention an audience might otherwise give to the socio-historical conditions of the situation in which t...

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Format

Journal

Date created

2012

Creator

Kavka, Misha, (University of Auckland, Film, Television, and Media Studies) / Turner, Stephen,, 1964-, (University of Auckland, English Department)

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/31480354

Related subjects

Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc. / Māori (New Zealand people) in motion pictures / Taniwha / Criticism, interpretation, etc. / Boy (Motion picture)

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