@article{Davis_2012, title={REVIEW: Delving into the complexity of NZ documentary}, volume={18}, url={https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/299}, DOI={10.24135/pjr.v18i1.299}, abstractNote={<p><span>Review of: <em>Observations: Studies in New Zealand documentary</em>, by Russell Campbell. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2011, 260 pp. ISBN 978-0864736567</span></p><p><span>Russell CampbellL, author of </span><em>Observations: Studies in New Zealand Documentary</em><span> has been described as a ‘partisan reporter’, the book as a ‘series of dispatches from the front’. Aligning the author on a series of borders between intellectual and practical, the book has been divided into three appropriate sections; </span><em>Workers and Stirrers, State of the Nation</em><span> and </span><em>Kiwi Culture</em><span> that support the author’s commitment to the latter. Woven in, topics such as industrial unrest, feminist movements and Māori resurgence capture a sense of the contested versions of New Zealand depicted in these documentaries.</span></p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa}, author={Davis, Catherine}, year={2012}, month={May}, pages={222-224} }