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Governing Visions of the Real: The National Film Unit and Griersonian Documentary Film in Aotearoa/New Zealand
1783204958 epub Governing Visions of the Real traces the emergence, development, and techniques of Griersonian documentarynamed for pioneering Scottish filmmaker John Griersonin New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Paying close attention to the productions of the National Film Unit in the 1940s and 50s, Lars Weckbecker follows the shifting practices and governmentality of documentarys visions of the real as New Zealand and its populationparticularly workers and its indigenous populationcame to be envisioned through NFU film for an ensemble of political, pedagogic, and propagandistic purposes.