Re-Inventing New Zealand : Essays on the Arts and the Media.

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.

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.

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