Author Archive for: ‘Hester Joyce’

Ourselves in Primetime: A History of New Zealand Television Drama

Trisha Dunleavy, Ourselves in Primetime: A History of New Zealand Television Drama. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. ISBN: 1 86940 339 8 300pp NZ$49.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Auckland University Press) The knowing is in the telling. At the heart of this study is a belief that a nation, any nation, to call itself that needs to see itself …

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The Piano

Gail Jones, The Piano. Sydney: Currency Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 86819 799 9 AUD$16.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Currency Press) Flagrant poetics: rendering Jane Campion’s The Piano new Gail Jones’ monograph on Jane Campion’s The Piano is the next in the Australian Screen Classics series published jointly by The AFC/National Film and Sound Archive and Currency Press. Others in the series include a …

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