In Search of Authenticity: the ‘Global Popular’ and ‘Quality’ Culture—the Case of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Pavement

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In Search of Authenticity: the ‘Global Popular’ and ‘Quality’ Culture—the Case of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Pavement

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Through an examination of three special issues devoted to The Lord of the Rings trilogy in Pavement, a New Zealand magazine, I propose to discuss the way in which the representation of these films suggests the complexities of the intersection between the global and the local within New Zealand culture and its consequences in particular in terms of the marginalisation of an indigenous discourse. I draw upon the work of scholars such as T. Bennett and J. Woolacott to define and examine the “rea...

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2005-08-01

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Hilary Radner

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PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies

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http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/109

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Lord of the Rings, Pavement Magazine, global culture, local culture, indigenous culture, magazine culture, reading / Colonies and colonization / Emigration and immigration / International migration / Sociology (General)

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