[Download] ~ Impaired and Ill at Ease: New Zealand's Cinematics of Disability. by Post Script ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Impaired and Ill at Ease: New Zealand's Cinematics of Disability.
- Author : Post Script
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 287 KB
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In what has been called New Zealand's "Cinema of Unease," the nation's isolation, alienation, and idiosyncracies have often been depicted in terms of physical, intellectual, and psychological dysfunction. (1) In Ian Mune's The End of the Golden Weather, cognitively disabled Firpo (Stephen Papps), mocked and tormented by the beach community of Te Parenga, offers for young Geoff Crome (Stephen Fulford) a glimpse of fantastical transcendence from the normality of the adult life he is about to enter. In Alison Maclean's Crush, set amidst the iconic bubbling mud pools of Rotorua, the brain injury and paralysis sustained by Christina (Donogh Rees) galvanize the tormented relations between an attractive American woman (Marcia Gay Harden) and a New Zealand father and daughter (William Zappa and Caitlin Bossley). And in Barry Barclay's Ngati, the uncertain future of a predominantly Maori community plays out alongside the illness and eventual death of a young Maori boy (Oliver Jones). Each of these films suggests that disability figures in the nation's self-imagining in complicated ways. Indeed, along with the centrality of disability rhetoric in New Zealanders' commentaries on their nation and their cinema, feature-film representations of disability and illness indicate the importance of the disability trope for the nation's concept of itself, a dysfunctional cinematic image of the national body which is sometimes self-pitying and sometimes ironic and liberating. In considering the function of cognitive dysfunction, paralysis and brain injury, and illness in, respectively, The End of the Golden Weather, Crush, and Ngati, this article contends that New Zealand's cinematics of disability offers a particularly New Zealand vision of national identity. Moreover, the association of a distinctive New Zealand identity with a sometimes-disparaged, sometimes-embraced physiological deviance may produce a representative politics that not only makes space for, but values such difference in "real life."
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