Preface
Part 1. The Coming-of-Age Genre and National Cinema
Chapter 1. The Coming-of-Age Film as a Genre: Attributes, Evolution, and Functions
Chapter 2. New Zealand Coming-of-Age Films: Distinctive Characteristics and Thematic Preoccupations
Part 2. The New Zealand New Wave: 1976-1989
Chapter 3. The Formation of a Budding Man Alone: The God Boy (Murray Reece, 1976)
Chapter 4. An Angry Young Man Seeks to Justify Himself: Sleeping Dogs (Ian Donaldson, 1977)
Chapter 5. An Immigrant Filmmaker Substitutes an Alternative Vision of Adolescence: The Scarecrow (Sam Pillsbury, 1982)
Chapter 6. Art-Cinema, Cultural Dislocation, and the Entry into Puberty: Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984)
Chapter 7. A Maori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns - Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)
Part 3. The Second Wave of the 1990s
Chapter 8. Creativity as a Haven: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)
Chapter 9. Desperation Turned Outwards: Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)
Chapter 10. Confronting Domestic Violence and Familial Abuse: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994)
Part 4. Preoccupations of the New Millennium
Chapter 11. An Adolescent Girl Experiments with Sexuality: Rain (Christine Jeffs, 2001)
Chapter 12. Asserting Feminist Claims within Maori Culture: Whale Rider (Nicki Caro, 2002)
Chapter 13. Family Secrets and Their Destructive Consequences: In My Father's Den (Brad McGann, 2004)
Chapter 14. A Gay Boy Comes to Terms with His Sexuality: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (Stewart Main, 2005)
Part 5. Perspectives on Maori Culture since 2010
Chapter 15. Parental Abandonment and the Trauma of Loss: Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010)
Chapter 16. A Maori Boy Contests the Old Patriarchal Order: Mahana (Lee Tamahori, 2016)
Chapter 17. Delinquency and Bicultural Relations: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
