MEDIA 313

Cinema of Aotearoa New Zealand

Please note: this is archived course information from 2023 for MEDIA 313.

Description

Traces a thematic history of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand from the mid-1980s until the present. Locates a range of films in their historical, social and political contexts by concentrating on issues that arise for a small nation defined by indigenous and settler relations, immigration and globalisation.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline for MEDIA 313.

Digital Course Outlines are refreshed in November for the following year. Digital Course Outlines for courses to be offered for the first time may be published slightly later.

Availability 2023

Not taught in 2023

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Professor Laurence Simmons

Recommended Reading

Diane Pivac and Frank Stark, eds. New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History. Wellington: Te Papa Press in association with The Film Archive, 2011.

Points

MEDIA 313: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies

Restrictions

FTVMS 208, 213, 300