Asia-Pacific Film Co-productions by Dal Yong Jin; Wendy Su
$120.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
This book examines cross-regional film collaboration within the Asia-Pacific region. Through a mixed methods approach of political economy, industry and market, as well as textual analysis, the book contributes to the understanding of the global fusion of cultural products and the reconfiguration of geo ...Show more
Kristeva in Focus: From Theory to Film Analysis by Katherine J. Goodnow
$85.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. It looks at how narratives have changed over time, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and representations of horror, strangers, and love. In addi ...Show more
Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002 by Giovanni Intra; Robert Leonard (Editor); Chris Kraus (Foreword by); Mark Von Schlegell (Foreword by); Andrew Berardini (Introduction by)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra's inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. "Everything you read about Los Angeles is true. The city adapts to its own mythology. It's such a ludicrously discussed place that I always feel sl ...Show more
On Screenwriting and Love and Politics: The Screenplay Blue Mist by Aviva Butt
$53.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
On Screenwriting and Love and Politics is a book by screenwriter Aviva Butt that invites the reader to take an up close view at writing a film script. Written in an engaging literary style, the book attempts to illuminate the emotions, theories, and process that go into crafting a screenplay.As a specia ...Show more
Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi by Matthew Bannister
$105.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Ser.
Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi's feature films and places his other works and performances-short films, TV series, advertisements, music ...Show more
Fatu Feu'u On Life & Art by Shona Jennings
$55.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Fatu Feu’u is an internationally recognised Samoan-New Zealand artist. He has been pivotal in shaping the interest in contemporary Pacific art globally and nurturing a generation of Pacific artists locally, leading to his reputation as the Father of contemporary Pacific art. In this book, Fatu shares h ...Show more
Observations: Studies in New Zealand Documentary by Russell Campbell
$50.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
In recent times New Zealanders have engaged in battle over who we are and what we would like our country to be, and documentary film has been in the thick of it. From the picket lines of industrial conflict to the occupied ground of Maori land rights campaigns, from the stormy skirmishes of women’s l ...Show more
Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture by Misha Kavka (ed.); Jennifer Lawn (ed.) Mary Paul (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Contemporary creative writers, intellectuals, photographers, painters and other artists have all contributed to this volume exploring the idea of 'gothic' in New Zealand culture. From Martin Edmond's abandoned houses, to Ian Lochhead's Victorian corrugated iron structures, to Otis Frizzell's tattoos, fr ...Show more
Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
In 1968, the 19 year-old Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK's hippest record label, Island. Three years later, however - having made ...Show more
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
$38.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #M ...Show more
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of But What if We're Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. It was long a ...Show more
The Queer Film Guide: 100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories by Kyle Turner
$35.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Enjoy your night in with these movies that tell queer stories. Have you noticed something about every "100 Greatest Movies Ever Made" list? The people in those movies . . . they're almost all straight, white men. With so much incredible cinema to choose from, those lists only begin to peer into the cin ...Show more