Benedict Anderson's concept of ‘imagined community’ is crafted around the work of the newspaper and the novel as the critical media through which peoples came to imagine themselves as nations in a modernising world. In this article I extend this inquiry to silent cinema, and specifically Rudall Hayward's The Te Kooti Trail, a modern artefact of a late colonial setting: the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, in 1927. Hayward's nation-forming aim is explicit, but his apparent intentions and his community-centred practice of film-making created a film in which imperialist, nationalist and local concerns jostle for priority. This article first undertakes a textual analysis which investigates the discrepancy between an imperial, often paternalist narrative, and an aspirational, national ethos embodying kinship among different settler groups and Māori. Second, an archival and oral historical investigation into the production process reveals that the film's recreation of the past brought together iwi, or tribes, with diverse histories of negotiating with the new world of settler colonialism, and contrasting engagements with modernity. These histories can be read both on the screen, and in the brief censorship of the film before its release. The film provides a compelling case of diverse Māori engagement with nationhood-in-formation through the medium of film, both in the evidence of the text and in the circumstances of the film's production and release.
本尼迪克特·安德森(Benedict Anderson)的“想象共同体”概念是围绕报纸和小说的工作而构思的，因为报纸和小说是人们在现代化世界中把自己想象成国家的关键媒体。在这篇文章中，我将这一调查扩展到无声电影，特别是鲁德尔·海沃德的《The The Kooti Trail》，这是一部晚期殖民背景的现代作品:1927年新西兰的丰盛湾。海沃德的国家形成目标是明确的，但他明显的意图和他以社区为中心的电影制作实践创造了一部帝国主义、民族主义和地方关注争夺优先权的电影。本文首先进行了文本分析，探讨了帝王式的、通常是家长式的叙事与体现不同定居者群体和Māori之间的亲属关系的、有抱负的、民族精神之间的差异。其次，对制作过程的档案和口述历史调查显示，这部电影对过去的再现将iwi或部落聚集在一起，他们与殖民主义新世界的谈判有着不同的历史，并与现代性形成对比。这些历史既可以在银幕上读到，也可以在电影上映前短暂的审查中读到。这部电影提供了一个令人信服的案例，通过电影媒介，在文本证据和电影制作和发行的情况下，Māori与国家信息的不同参与。
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Waugh's last comic novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) takes ‘exterior modernism’ to a new height, no longer avoiding interiority – as in his interwar fiction – but exteriorising the interio...
{"title":"Hearing Voices: The Extended Mind in Evelyn Waugh's The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold","authors":"Yuexi Liu","doi":"10.3366/mod.2020.0289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0289","url":null,"abstract":"Waugh's last comic novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) takes ‘exterior modernism’ to a new height, no longer avoiding interiority – as in his interwar fiction – but exteriorising the interio...","PeriodicalId":41937,"journal":{"name":"Modernist Cultures","volume":"2 1","pages":"202-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91103285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper explores the intersection of jazz culture and popular discourse on nervous disorders in Britain in the 1920s through Noel Coward's plays and revues. In the wake of the First World War, a...
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The years during and after the Great War saw an explosion in arts organisations attempting ‘to bring the Arts into everyday life’.1 This essay argues that arts organisations should be seen alongsid...
{"title":"‘within the reach of all’: Bringing Art to the People in Interwar Britain","authors":"Emma West","doi":"10.3366/MOD.2020.0290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/MOD.2020.0290","url":null,"abstract":"The years during and after the Great War saw an explosion in arts organisations attempting ‘to bring the Arts into everyday life’.1 This essay argues that arts organisations should be seen alongsid...","PeriodicalId":41937,"journal":{"name":"Modernist Cultures","volume":"65 1","pages":"225-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79772582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay explores modernism's aesthetic and political implications through examining the works of Humphrey Jennings. The essay takes as a starting point the tension inherent to the democratic aes...
{"title":"Humphrey Jennings's ‘Film Fables’: Democracy and Image in The Silent Village","authors":"M. Hoshino","doi":"10.3366/mod.2020.0286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0286","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores modernism's aesthetic and political implications through examining the works of Humphrey Jennings. The essay takes as a starting point the tension inherent to the democratic aes...","PeriodicalId":41937,"journal":{"name":"Modernist Cultures","volume":"61 1","pages":"133-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89368595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scholarship on interwar understandings of ‘collective cognition’ – experiences of intellectual union with others – tends to focus on its capacity to threaten individuality. I counter this trend by ...
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{"title":"Susan Cannon Harris, Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892–1964","authors":"Daniel Gomes","doi":"10.3366/mod.2020.0292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41937,"journal":{"name":"Modernist Cultures","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86948250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the set of interlocking and overlapping institutional, pedagogical, and commercial developments that led to the critical editing of James Joyce's Ulysses by Hans Walter Gabler...
{"title":"Modernism on the Punch Tape: Editing the 1984 Ulysses","authors":"R. Crowley, Joshua Schäuble","doi":"10.3366/mod.2020.0278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0278","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the set of interlocking and overlapping institutional, pedagogical, and commercial developments that led to the critical editing of James Joyce's Ulysses by Hans Walter Gabler...","PeriodicalId":41937,"journal":{"name":"Modernist Cultures","volume":"38 1","pages":"29-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73280066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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