1. THE COMING-OF-AGE FILM AS A GENRE: ATTRIBUTES, EVOLUTION, AND FUNCTIONS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. PREFACE ix
5. TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA xi
6. PART 1 THE COMING-OF-AGE GENRE AND NATIONAL CINEMA
7. 1. THE COMING-OF-AGE FILM AS A GENRE: ATTRIBUTES, EVOLUTION, AND FUNCTIONS 1
8. 2. NEW ZEALAND COMING-OF-AGE FILMS: DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS AND THEMATIC PREOCCUPATIONS 16
9. PART 2 THE NEW ZEALAND NEW WAVE: 1976–89
10. 3. THE FORMATION OF A BUDDING MAN ALONE: THE GOD BOY (MURRAY REECE, 1976) 29
11. 4. AN ANGRY YOUNG MAN SEEKS TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF: SLEEPING DOGS (ROGER DONALDSON, 1977) 42
12. 5. AN IMMIGRANT FILMMAKER SUBSTITUTES AN ALTERNATIVE VISION OF ADOLESCENCE: THE SCARECROW (SAM PILLSBURY, 1982) 55
13. 6. ART-CINEMA, CULTURAL DISLOCATION, AND THE ENTRY INTO PUBERTY: VIGIL (VINCENT WARD, 1984) 68
14. 7. A MĀORI GIRL WATCHES, LISTENS, AND LEARNS – COMING OF AGE FROM AN INDIGENOUS VIEWPOINT: MAURI (MERATA MITA, 1988) 80
15. PART 3 THE SECOND WAVE OF THE 1990S
16. 8. CREATIVITY AS A HAVEN: AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE ( JANE CAMPION, 1990) 93
17. 9. DESPERATION TURNED OUTWARDS: HEAVENLY CREATURES (PETER JACKSON, 1994) 108
18. 10. CONFRONTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND FAMILIAL ABUSE: ONCE WERE WARRIORS (LEE TAMAHORI, 1994) 121
19. PART 4 PREOCCUPATIONS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
20. 11. AN ADOLESCENT GIRL EXPERIMENTS WITH SEXUALITY: RAIN (CHRISTINE JEFFS, 2001) 135
21. 12. ASSERTING FEMINIST CLAIMS WITHIN MĀORI CULTURE: WHALE RIDER (NIKI CARO, 2002) 148
22. 13. FAMILY SECRETS AND THEIR DESTRUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES: IN MY FATHER’S DEN (BRAD MCGANN, 2004) 161
23. 14. A GAY BOY COMES TO TERMS WITH HIS SEXUALITY: 50 WAYS OF SAYING FABULOUS (STEWART MAIN, 2005) 175
24. PART 5 PERSPECTIVES ON MĀORI CULTURE SINCE 2010
25. 15. PARENTAL ABANDONMENT AND THE TRAUMA OF LOSS: BOY (TAIKA WAITITI, 2010) 187
26. 16. A MĀORI BOY CONTESTS THE OLD PATRIARCHAL ORDER: MAHANA (LEE TAMAHORI, 2016) 203
27. 17. DELINQUENCY AND BICULTURAL RELATIONS: HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (TAIKA WAITITI, 2016) 216
28. CONCLUSION 231
29. BIBLIOGRAPHY 235
30. INDEX 240