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Reframing early Australasian cinema: Trans-Tasman exchanges during the silent film period 重构早期澳大拉西亚电影:默片时期的跨塔斯曼交流

Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/NZPS.6.2.107_1

T. O’Regan, Alfio Leotta

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Special issue: New Zealand and Pacific film 特刊：新西兰与太平洋电影

Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/NZPS.6.2.101_2

I. Conrich, L. Sedgwick

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The force awakens: Mana as causal agent in Pacific narrative cinemas 原力觉醒:玛娜在太平洋叙事电影中扮演因果角色

Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/NZPS.6.2.121_1

Yifen T. Beus

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‘Vampires don’t do dishes’: Old myths, the modern world, horror and the mundane in What We Do in the Shadows (2014) 《我们在阴影中做的事》(2014):“吸血鬼不洗碗”:古老的神话、现代世界、恐怖和平凡

Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/NZPS.6.2.137_1

A. Wright

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Contested terrains of identity and home: Coming of age, belonging and Māori-Pākehā relations in Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) 身份和家园的竞争地形：Taika Waititi的《荒野猎人》（2016）中的成年、归属和毛利关系

Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/NZPS.6.2.151_1

Eva Rueschmann

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