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Contemporary New Zealand Cinema
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New Zealand Filmmakers
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This volume contains twenty in-depth studies of prominent New Zealand directors, producers, actors, and cinematographers. "New Zealand Filmmakers" outlines and examines three major constituent groups who are responsible for the industry as it appears today: those involved in pioneering film in New Zealand, those associated with the New Wave of the 1970s and 1980s, and those post - mid-1980s visionaries and fantasists who have produced striking individual productions. A comprehensive introduction situates the New Zealand film industry in cultural, historical, and ideological contexts.The book displays the diversity of filmmaking in New Zealand and highlights the specific industrial, aesthetic, and cultural concerns that have created a film culture of international significance. With the majority of the contributions in the book containing analysis developed through dialogue with the filmmakers, "New Zealand Filmmakers" is an
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The Frodo Franchise : How Lord of the Rings became a Hollywood blockbuster and put New Zealand on the map
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This is a fascinating behind-the-scenes book about The Lord of the Rings as a contemporary cinema phenomenon. Compiled by a leading American film academic, it is the fullest possible inside story - of the planning for the movie, the corporate battles, the struggle to get the movie made, the creative genius of Peter Jackson, the special effects and digital breakthroughs, the massive promotion, in particular the radically new use of the Internet ? and the millions of dollars the movies cost, and then made, at the box office. Thompson argues that one of the reasons why the film was an international success because its makers seized a crucial moment in Hollywood, both to make the film but also to market it using the cutting edge power of the Internet around the world. The Lord of the Rings took NZ by storm, and there are detailed chapters about this set in NZ. But it also took Hollywood by storm, forcing the rewriting of some of
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