The settlement trap

Misha Kavka

doi:10.1386/sfs.6.1.67_1

ISSN: 2042-7824
E-ISSN: 2042-7832

The settlement trap
By Misha Kavka¹
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Affiliations: ¹ University of Auckland
Source: Short Film Studies, Volume 6, Issue 1, Apr 2016, p. 67 - 70
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs.6.1.67_1
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Apr 2016

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Abstract

McGann has characterized Possum as being about the relationship between the outsider and society that is central to his work. This article places that relationship in the national context of New Zealand as a project of settlement, and in the filmic context of the 1990s New Zealand Gothic.

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Keyword(s): adolescence; expressionist landscape; feral child; New Zealand Gothic; possum as pest; settler colonialism

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