New Zealand Film: National Identity and the Films of Vincent Ward

From: Metro : Media & Education Magazine | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The development of New Zealand's national cinema attests to the changing nature of New Zealand's national identity.

EARLY films made in New Zealand, often by filmmakers from Europe and america, rested on a vision of New Zealand as a remote pastoral paradise; a kind of antipodean arcadia, populated by Maori noble savages and dusky smiling maidens. Other early films depicted various aspects of colonial life from the point of view of the colonizers, but this began to change when films such as Rewi's Last Stand (Rudall Hayward, 1940), Broken Barrier (John O'Shea, 1952) and To Love a Maori (Rudall ...

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