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New Zealand Book Month Collection
New Zealand Book Month Collection
This two-part collection coincides with New Zealand Book Month to celebrate NZ books and authors on screen.
Part one features screen adaptations of NZ literature. A roll-call of classic Kiwi screen and teleplays has come from books: An Angel at My Table, Came a Hot Friday, Once Were Warriors, The Quiet Earth, Sleeping Dogs, Whale Rider, Rain, In My Father's Den, Under the Mountain, and many more ...
Part two features writers on screen: iconic Aotearoa authors who have been celebrated, and found new readers, through being documented on screen.
In an introductory essay, journalist, broadcaster (The Good Word), and ex-Listener editor Finlay Macdonald explores the close relationship between page and screen; musing upon their shared origin in, “the little thing from which so much else flows – the written word.”
Enjoy!
Gordon Campbell: On When Racism Comes Disguised As Anti-racism
Peter Dunne: Newshub And TVNZ Tip Of Media Iceberg
Harry Finch: Austerity – For And Against
Gordon Campbell: On Winston Peters’ Pathetic Speech At The UN
Binoy Kampmark: Flicker Of Hope, Biden’s Throwaway Lines On Assange
Media Matters NZ: Here We Go Again