Lecture: New Zealand Cinema and the Look of the Land
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Location: ICC Room #550 3700 O Street Northwest Washington, DC 20057
Host: Georgetown University's Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies
A lecture by New Zealand Fulbright Scholar, Scott Wilson
In the minds of most audiences, New Zealand cinema is synonymous with visions of New Zealand’s landscapes: sweeping aerial views, hauntingly deserted vistas, primeval forests and bubbling mud pools. Part of my research as a NZ Fulbright Visiting Scholar has been to explore the history of these kinds of representation, linking our contemporary cinematic expectations of New Zealand to the desires of colonial expansion and European settlement. This presentation will summarize my work thus far and explore the possible implications of these kinds of representation.
Scott Wilson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Performing and Screen Arts at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. He has published on topics as diverse as abjection and reality television, road safety advertising, and the role of monster movies in post-9/11 cinema. His first book, The Politics of Insects: David Cronenberg’s Cinema of Confrontation, was published in 2011 by Continuum (New York). Scott is currently the 2013 NZ Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand Studies at the Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies in Georgetown University, Washington D.
RSVP required via http://cinemanz.eventbrite.com/ by Tuesday, April 22, 2013
A light lunch will be available
Event webpage: http://cinemanz.eventbrite.com/
