Our Own Image: A Story of a M?ori Filmmaker
Barry Barclay
Abstract
Acclaimed Māori filmmaker Barry Barclay’s Our Own Image relates the experiences of making his documentaries and his critically acclaimed feature-length film Ngati (1987), widely credited as the first fiction feature by a member of an indigenous community. Barclay details his views on the process of filmmaking within his own Māori community and discusses how his work differed from popular cinema, advocating for indigenous control, participation, and perspectives in media. Our Own Image gives an in-depth depiction of the changes Barclay’s approach contributed to the field of documentaries, as we ... More
Keywords: film studies, media studies, documentary, Barry Barclay, Maori, Maori film, indigenous studies, New Zealand film, cultural criticism, indigenous cinema
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816697618 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816697618.001.0001 |
