This study interrogates the nature and deployment of media power in the lives of actors with reference to particular products of popular entertainment. Based on ethnographic field work conducted in Matamata, Aotearoa New Zealand in February and March of 2007, and on textual analysis of print, ...
Matamata– if the name sounds familiar, it may be because you’ve read that Matamata is the name of the rural town in New Zealand where Peter Jackson filmed the Hobbiton scenes fromLord of the Rings. In Paris, it’s the name of a new coffee shop in the 2nd arrondissement with cozy ...
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