Touring the Screen

Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction
  Scope of the study
  Film, tourism and postmodernism
  Chapter outline
  Notes
Early New Zealand Films and Western Voy(ag)eurs
  Introduction
  New Zealand, or the "world in a nutshell"
  New Zealanders: "eternal tourists and proud pioneers"
  The Maori: between ethnographic and tourist romance
  Empty landscapes and (post)colonial enterprises
1940–1990: New Zealand Film Landscapes for Prospective ’Cinenauts’
  Introduction
  From the National Film Unit to the Film Commission
  Mapping New Zealand landscapes
  Place versus space
  Escape from the narrative space
  Transitional space, porous space: the road
  The city, or New Zealand dystopia
  Natural places and natural spaces: the mountain and the bush
  Journey to the centre of the film: the ’cinenauts’
The Legacy of The Piano: Film-Tourist Geographies and the Aesthetic of the Sublime
  Introduction
  Methodological premises
  Ada McGrath: a Victorian adventure tourist in New Zealand
  Nature, space and narrative
  Locations and national identity
  Framing the beach
  Return to the beach: Memory and Desire
  Conclusions
From Ngati to Whale Rider: The Filmic Journey of the Indigenous Traveller
  Introduction
  Fourth Cinema
  Whale Rider: indigenous locations and global imaginary
  Whangara: between reality and hyper-reality
  Ethnographic, neo-colonial and tourist gazes
  The indigenous traveller
  The hybrid traveller
  The Western traveller
  Conclusions
From Mt. Fuji to Mt. Taranaki: Dépaysement and Celebrity Worship in The Last Samurai
  Introduction
  The Last Samurai in Taranaki
  The Last Samurai and tourist imagination
  From Mt. Taranaki to Mt. Fuji: negotiating the meaning of place
  Celebrity worship
  The management of film-induced tourism: critical factors
  Conclusions
’Welcome to New Zealand, Home of Middle Earth’: Heterotopian Impulse, Western Anxiety and Spatial Identity in The Lord of the Rings
  Introduction
  The Lord of the Rings: merchandising and film franchise
  Style, narrative and space in The Lord of the Rings
  9/11 and Western anxiety
  New Zealand
  Conclusions
Conclusions

Filmography
Bibliography