ABSTRACT

This article discusses the responses from people in Aotearoa/New Zealand and New Zealanders overseas to the online questionnaire of the World Hobbit Project, an international audience research project on the reception of the film trilogy The Hobbit involving 145 researchers from 46 countries. As the trilogy was filmed in their home country, New Zealand audiences were uniquely positioned to interpret The Hobbit. ‘Affective resonance’ played a role in relation to three interrelated issues that Aotearoa/New Zealand is struggling with as a postcolonial nation: the use of the landscape, the representation of race and the notion of greed. In all three cases, audiences saw parallels between the narrative of The Hobbit, the context of the trilogy’s production and longstanding issues resulting from Aotearoa/New Zealand’s colonial history.

摘要

本文讨论了来自Aotearoa /新西兰和海外的新西兰人对世界霍比特人计划在线问卷的回应，该计划是一项国际观众研究项目，旨在接受来自46个国家的145名研究人员的电影三部曲《霍比特人》。由于三部曲是在他们的祖国拍摄的，因此新西兰的观众在诠释《霍比特人》时享有独特的地位。“情感共鸣”在奥特罗阿/新西兰作为后殖民国家正在努力解决的三个相互关联的问题中发挥了作用：景观的使用，种族的代表以及贪婪的观念。在所有这三种情况下，观众都看到了《霍比特人》的叙述之间的相似之处，这是三部曲的制作背景以及由奥特罗阿（Aotearoa）/新西兰的殖民历史引起的长期问题。