ABSTRACT

By relying on the textual analysis and on the examination of existing archival documents related to their production and circulation, this article analyses three documentaries produced in New Zealand in the 1965–1971 time frame while providing an overview of New Zealand film history as well as the examination of pre-existing modes of urban representation in New Zealand cinema. The author argues that these three case studies, Wellington in the 1960s: The Way it Seemed, To Live in the City and Notes on A New Zealand City stand at the intersection of both local and global cinematic, social and cultural phenomena, displaying the emergence of a new stylistic and ideological perspective on the New Zealand cinematic city. Such dystopic take is a reflection of both deep social and cultural transformations in New Zealand society and global cinematic phenomena.

摘要

本文依靠文本分析和对与制作和流通相关的现有档案文件的检查，分析了 1965 年至 1971 年期间在新西兰制作的三部纪录片，同时概述了新西兰电影史以及考察新西兰电影中已有的城市表现模式。作者认为这三个案例研究，1960 年代的惠灵顿：它看起来的方式，在城市中生活和新西兰城市笔记站在本地和全球电影、社会和文化现象的交汇处，展示了新西兰电影城市的新风格和意识形态视角的出现。这种反常现象反映了新西兰社会深刻的社会和文化变革以及全球电影现象。