The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand

by Brendan Hokowhitu (Editor), Vijay Devadas (Editor)

Overview

The Fourth Eye brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to provide a critical and comprehensive account of the intricate and complex relationship between the media and Māori culture. Examining the Indigenous mediascape, The Fourth Eye shows how Māori filmmakers, actors, and media producers have depicted conflicts over citizenship rights and negotiated the representation of Indigenous people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452941752
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Series:	Indigenous Americas
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Brendan Hokowhitu is dean of the faculty of native studies at the University of Alberta. He is coeditor of Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge.

Table of Contents

Contents

Maps
Introduction: The Indigenous Mediascape in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devadas

I. Mediated Indigeneity: Representing the Indigenous Other
1. Governing Indigenous Sovereignty: Biopolitics and the ‘Terror Raids’ in New Zealand
Vijay Devadas
2. Postcolonial Trauma: Child Abuse, Genocide, and Journalism in New Zealand
Allen Meek
3. Promotional Culture and Indigenous Identity: Trading the Other
Jay Scherer
4. Viewing against the Grain: Postcolonial Remediation in Rain of the Children
Kevin Fisher and Brendan Hokowhitu
5. Consume or Be Consumed: Targeting Māori Consumers in Print Media
Suzanne Duncan
II. Indigenous Media: Emergence, Struggles, and Interventions
6. Theorizing Indigenous Media
Brendan Hokowhitu
7. Te Hokioi and the Legitimization of the Māori Nation
Lachy Paterson
8. Barry Barclay's Te Rua: The Unmanned Camera and Māori Political Activism
April Strickland
9. Reflections on Barry Barclay and Fourth Cinema
Stephen Turner
III. Māori Television: Nation, Culture, and Identity
10. The Māori Television Service and Questions of Culture
Chris Prentice
11. Māori Television, Anzac Day, and Constructing ‘Nationhood’
Sue Abel
12. Indigeneity and Cultural Belonging in Survivor-Styled Reality Television from New Zealand
Jo Smith and Joost de Bruin

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Lively and comprehensive, The Fourth Eye is an ambitious book, the first major collection devoted to Maori media." —Faye Ginsburg, New York University

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