Notes on the Contributors | p. viii |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
Aboriginal Narratives | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Jedda | p. 5 |
The Making of Lousy Little Sixpence | p. 11 |
Buffalo Legends | p. 17 |
Rabbit Proof Fence | p. 22 |
Blood is Thicker than Water: Stains on the Land in Bra Boys | p. 26 |
Australia | p. 31 |
Maori Narratives | p. 37 |
Introduction | p. 39 |
Méliès in Maoriland: The Making of the First New Zealand Feature Films | p. 41 |
Patu! | p. 46 |
Ngati | p. 52 |
Once Were Warriors | p. 58 |
The New Zealand Wars | p. 63 |
Introduction | p. 65 |
'Magnificent Failure' or Subversive Triumph?: The Governor | p. 67 |
Making Nation: Utu | p. 73 |
Nga Pakanga Nunui o Aotearoa/The New Zealand Wars | p. 79 |
Reconciling History in Vincent Ward's River Queen | p. 85 |
Imaging the Nation | p. 91 |
Introduction | p. 93 |
Romantic New Zealand: 1920s and 1930s' NZ Government Publicity Office Travelogues | p. 95 |
From Colony to Nation in One Hundred Crowded Years: A Narrative on Civilisation, Progress and Modernity | p. 100 |
Camera Natura | p. 105 |
Cinema of Unease | p. 109 |
Seeing Red in 1949 and 1995 | p. 113 |
War and Society | p. 119 |
Introduction by Daniel Reynaud | p. 121 |
Breaker Morant | p. 123 |
Gallipoli | p. 128 |
The Cowra Breakout | p. 133 |
War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us | p. 138 |
Revealing Revealing Gallipoli | p. 143 |
Stories of Adolescence | p. 149 |
Introduction | p. 151 |
Smiley | p. 153 |
The Devil's Playground: Coming-of-Age as National Cinema | p. 158 |
Sex and Subculture: Bruce Beresford's Puberty Blues | p. 164 |
Whale Rider | p. 169 |
Icons, Crime and the Imagination | p. 175 |
Introduction | p. 177 |
One Summer Again: The Dramatising of the Heidelberg School | p. 179 |
Witnessing Innocence: Fred Schepisi's Evil Angels | p. 184 |
An Angel at My Table | p. 189 |
The Piano | p. 194 |
Heavenly Creatures: The 1954 Parker-Hulme Case | p. 199 |
Ned Kelly (2003) | p. 205 |
Explorations of Gender and Sexuality | p. 211 |
Introduction by Rebecca Beirne | p. 213 |
Dad and Dave Come to Town: Mr Entwhistle and Male Homosexuality | p. 215 |
My Brilliant Career | p. 220 |
Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters | p. 225 |
Love the Beast | p. 231 |
Immigrants, Refugees and Multicultural Narratives | p. 237 |
Introduction | p. 239 |
Who's the Weird Mob Anyway? Assimilation and Authenticity in They're A Weird Mob | p. 241 |
Illustrious Energy | p. 246 |
Serenades | p. 252 |
Pacific Solution: From Afghanistan to Aotearoa | p. 257 |
Playing with the Past | p. 265 |
Introduction | p. 267 |
Forgotten Silver | p. 269 |
Rosie's Secret | p. 275 |
Revisioning the Australian Outback House of 1861 | p. 280 |
Living History: The Colony | p. 285 |
Index | p. 291 |
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