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Bullies behind the screen, Jane Westaway
Whale Oil Margie Thomson Potton and Burton, $40.00, ISBN 9780947503819 The authors of certain books published in this country deserve medals. Not literary prizes, although they might merit these, too. But I mean authors who devote themselves to uncovering connections…
Tagged with: Issue 128, Jane Westaway, Margie Thomson, Potton and Burton, Summer 2019
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Lies and damned lies, Gyles Beckford
Truthteller Stephen Davis Exisle Publishing, $30.00, ISBN 9781925335897 “Aren’t we all investigative journalists?” my colleague asked, as we lamented the quality of the coffee at an early hour in the newsroom kitchen. “We’d all like to think so,” I replied.…
Tagged with: Exisle Publishing, Gyles Beckford, Issue 127, Spring 2019, Stephen Davis
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Finding the way back, Nicholas Reid
Now When it Rains – A Writer’s Memoir Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 9780947493776 A boy needs a father, but things can go badly wrong if the father is not good at fathering. This seems to be one…
Tagged with: Issue 126, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Nicholas Reid, Steele Roberts, Winter 2019
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Pressing on, James Hollings
Lasting Impressions: The Story of New Zealand’s Newspapers, 1840–1920 Ian F Grant Fraser Books, in association with the Alexander Turnbull Library, $69.50, ISBN 9780994136046 At a time when journalism is in crisis, with collapsing revenues and governments and elites indifferent…
Tagged with: Alexander Turnbull Library, Dr James Hollings, Fraser Books, Ian F Grant, Issue 126, Winter 2019
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
History, memory and representation, Alfio Leotta
The Camera in the Crowd: Filming New Zealand in Peace and War: 1895-1920 Christopher Pugsley Oratia Books, $80.00, ISBN 9780947506346 Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen Annabel Cooper University of Otago Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781988531083 As…
Tagged with: Alfio Leotta, Christopher Pugsley, Issue 126, Oratia Books, University of Otago Press, Winter 2019
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Getting the news out, James Norcliffe
Surviving 7.8: New Zealanders Respond to the Earthquakes of November 2016 Phil Pennington and Radio New Zealand HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775541103 New Zealanders, Cantabrians in particular, have, over the last half-dozen years, become reluctant experts in earthquakes. We have…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 120, James Norcliffe, Phil Pennington, Radio New Zealand, Summer 2017
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Fiasco, Jon Johansson
Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson Potton & Burton, $35.00, ISBN 9780947503390 As someone who has been around the political traps a fair while, my heuristic for…
Tagged with: Issue 119, Jon Johansson, Jon Stephenson, Nicky Hager, Potton & Burton, Spring 2017
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Protect, promote, and attract an audience, Wayne Hope
Māori Television: The First Ten Years Jo Smith Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869408572 The birth of the Māori Television Service in March 2004 coincided with nationwide protests against the Labour government’s plan to entrench, legislatively, Crown ownership of the…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 118, Jo Smith, Wayne Hope, Winter 2017
Posted in Māori, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Cartoonist with bite, Dinah Priestley
Murdoch: The Cartoons of Sharon Murdoch Sharon Murdoch (with commentary by Melinda Johnston) Potton and Burton, $40.00, ISBN 9780947503239 Anne Tolley crouches watchfully inside a beneficiary’s uterus, high heels digging into the soft pink flesh, her two fists blocking the…
Tagged with: Dinah Priestley, Issue 118, Melinda Johnston, Potton and Burton, Sharon Murdoch, Winter 2017
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology