- Paperback: 222 pages
- Publisher: OUP Australia and New Zealand (1 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195583361
- ISBN-13: 978-0195583366
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,899,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This comprehensive reference book surveys every feature film theatrically released in the period 1912-1995 - including such classics as Sleeping Dogs, Vigil, Heavenly Creatures, and Once Were Warriors. The films are arranged chronologically and each entry includes full credits and cast details, as well as a critical overview. All the films are accompanied by at least one photo still, and they include: - fiction features specific to New Zealand ( silent and sound) - co-productions - documentary features - overseas features made partly in New Zealand Four appendices cover: - feature-length telemovies - feature-length documentaries - films under production at the time of publication - film-related bodies
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Helen Martin is a freelance writer. Sam Edwards is Convenor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Waikato.
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A useful if limited reference
27 Oct 2002
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The authors have intended this to be a reference book to New Zealand feature films over the period indicated and their selection demonstrates that they have a very liberal view of what constitutes a "New Zealand" film and a "feature". Even so there are a number of surprising omissions. Apart from full details (some of which are wrong) and credits they give a story outline and their own opinions about each film. Generally the latter are well reasoned but in some cases they are also highly debatable. The book gives little detail about what what was going on in the cinema industry and the country that was manifested by these features and doesn't present much of an overview of the whole scene. Perhaps the greatest disappointment however for what is a visual medium is the poor choice of and reproduction of the stills. For those wanting a complementary and generally better book on this subject, I recommend "Celluloid Dreams: A century of film in New Zealand" which was published about the same time.
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