Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Traditions in World Cinema

pp xi-xii

PART 1 - THE COMING-OF-AGE GENRE AND NATIONAL CINEMA

pp 1-2

1 - The Coming-of-age Film as a Genre: Attributes, Evolution, and Functions

pp 3-15

2 - New Zealand Coming-of-age Films: Distinctive Characteristics and Thematic Preoccupations

pp 16-28

PART 2 - THE NEW ZEALAND NEW WAVE: 1976–89

pp 29-30

3 - The Formation of a Budding Man Alone: The God Boy (Murray Reece, 1976)

pp 31-41

4 - An Angry Young Man Seeks to Justify Himself: Sleeping Dogs (Ian Donaldson, 1977)

pp 42-54

5 - An Immigrant Filmmaker Substitutes an Alternative Vision of Adolescence: The Scarecrow (Sam Pillsbury, 1982)

pp 55-67

6 - Art-cinema, Cultural Dislocation, and the Entry into Puberty: Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984)

pp 68-79

7 - A Māori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns – Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)

pp 80-92

PART 3 - THE SECOND WAVE OF THE 1990s

pp 93-94

8 - Creativity as a Haven: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)

pp 95-107

9 - Desperation Turned Outwards: Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)

pp 108-120

10 - Confronting Domestic Violence and Familial Abuse: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994)

pp 121-134

PART 4 - PREOCCUPATIONS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM

pp 135-136

11 - An Adolescent Girl Experiments with Sexuality: Rain (Christine Jeffs, 2001)

pp 137-147

12 - Asserting Feminist Claims within Māori Culture: Whale Rider (Nicki Caro, 2002)

pp 148-160

13 - Family Secrets and their Destructive Consequences: In My Father's Den (Brad McGann, 2004)

pp 161-174

14 - A Gay Boy Comes to Terms with his Sexuality: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (Stewart Main, 2005)

pp 175-186

PART 5 - PERSPECTIVES ON MĀORI CULTURE SINCE 2010

pp 187-188

15 - Parental Abandonment and the Trauma of Loss: Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010)

pp 189-202

16 - A Māori Boy Contests the Old Patriarchal Order: Mahana (Lee Tamahori, 2016)

pp 203-215

17 - Delinquency and Bicultural Relations: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016)

pp 216-230

Conclusion

pp 231-234

Bibliography

pp 235-239

Index

pp 240-247