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Analysis of Geoff Murphy's film, "Goodbye Pork Pie"
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Analysis of Geoff Murphy's film, "Goodbye Pork Pie"
An analysis of the NewZealand film "Goodbye Pork Pie" by Geoff Murphy.
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APA | 2002
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This paper examines the way in which "Goodbye Pork Pie" reflects the social and political climate of New Zealand in the 1970s. The author investigate the "Kiwi" culture as portrayed through the film. The author writes that New Zealand is presented as distinctive through iconographical features of the culture and countryside through which the journey takes place, as well as the time period. Women are sidelined as the narrative is engineered around the comradery of two kiwi 'blokes', John and Jerry. Furthermore, the paper describes that the film criticizes the right-wing government of its time and focuses on two antiheroes.From the Paper:
"Goodbye Pork Pie, directed by Geoff Murphy, and released in Cannes in 1980, is a distinctively New Zealand interpretation of the popular American road movie: a derivative of the buddy-western genre. The buddies, John and Jerry, are propelled by circumstance into a chance meeting and a consequential life of running from authority that seems to have nothing else to do, but to pursue (and pursue?) a little stolen yellow mini."More papers on Analysis of Geoff Murphy's film, "Goodbye Pork Pie":
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Analysis of Geoff Murphy's film, "Goodbye Pork Pie" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 14, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Analysis-of-Geoff-Murphy's-film-Goodbye-Pork-Pie/8096
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"Analysis of Geoff Murphy's film, "Goodbye Pork Pie"" 15 January 2012. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Analysis-of-Geoff-Murphy's-film-Goodbye-Pork-Pie/8096>
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Oct 01, 2002 My entire school education has been at a prestigious private school. I received the highest grade in English in my second to last year at school, and ranked amongst the top students in my country for our final school exam, "Bursary". I am currently in my third and final year at university, completing at arts degree in both English and film (a double major). I am best at analytical writing, and receive excellent grades for my work which I consider original and detailed. I intend on studying advertising or journalism as a postgraduate study.
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