Reframing Women – a History of New Zealand Film Deborah Shepard HarperCollins, $59.95, ISBN 1869503147 Books that set out to be histories of an art form are always doing two things simultaneously – documenting and criticising. Deborah Shepard’s Reframing…
Stand and Deliver Ian Johnstone Cape Catley, $29.95 ISBN 0 90856170 9 A story is doing the rounds that a producer recently proposed a documentary on poverty to one of our television networks. He/she wanted to record the daily struggles…
The Foreign Expert: A New Zealand Journalist in China Mervyn Cull Hazard Press $24.95 ISBN 1 877161 03 9 China’s English-language press is full of the unexpected. It ranges from unlooked-for revelations (my favourite is a story which read, from…
Shaping the News: Waitangi Day on Television Sue Abel Auckland University Press $34.95 ISBN 1 86940 176 X The first iron law of commercial television is: keep them watching. As a result television news is determined to make it more…
New Zealand Film 1912-1996 Helen Martin and Sam Edwards Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 019 558336 1 Here are three separate and unrelated personal anecdotes about New Zealand film. Each has a neat and glib “moral” tacked on to it…
Revolution in the Air! Paul Smith Longman, $29.95 ISBN 0582 878101 Dangerous Democracy? News Media Politics in New Zealand Judy McGregor (ed) Dunmore Press, $34.95 ISBN 086469 2595 When confronted with 50 or 60 television channels in a North American…
Mass Media in the Pacific ‑ Nuis Bilong Pasifik David Robie (ed) University of Papua New Guinea Press, $29.95 ISBN 9980840528 Foreign Correspondents Liam Jeory and Cameron Bennett Hodder Moa Beckett, $39.95, ISBN 1869582101 As the technological means for gathering…
Live from the Battlefield Peter Arnett Hodder & Stoughton, $49.95 Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Australia and Fleet Street were the beacons for every New Zealand journalist without a house full of kids or one of those painfully faithful…
Film in Aotearoa New Zealand Jonathan Dennis and Jan Bieringa (eds), Victoria University Press, 1992, $49.95 University lecturers have become very aware of the price of new books, especially if they are likely to appear on set text or recommended…