Imagining resistance: Māori audiences resist trauma and reimagine representations in television dramas

dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume9
dc.contributor.authorBarnes AM
dc.contributor.editorMatheson D
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-30T23:29:32Z
dc.date.available2024-06-30T23:29:32Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-29
dc.description.abstractTelevision drama has implications beyond providing entertainment and beyond immediate audience reactions and responses. Māori focus group participants in my research on local television dramas were acutely aware of how they were represented on screen. As an audience they were deeply affected and worked hard to pre-empt and address what they saw or expected to see. Against a backdrop of colonisation and negative stereotypes that pervade Māori representations, they undertook multiple forms of meaning making and negotiated complex responses. Colonial trauma emerged as a deeply felt response to representations that reminded participants of the effects of colonisation; for example, the denigration of te reo Māori (Māori language) and issues of identity. When viewing troubling depictions, participants deployed strategies of resistance, including a response I termed ‘Imagining Resistance’ where, they created backstories and interpretations for characters’ motivations and behaviours.
dc.description.confidentialfalse
dc.edition.editionJan 2023
dc.format.pagination30-43
dc.identifier.citationBarnes AM. (2023). Imagining resistance: Māori audiences resist trauma and reimagine representations in television dramas. Communication Research and Practice. 9. 1. (pp. 30-43).
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/22041451.2023.2188693
dc.identifier.eissn2206-3374
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn2204-1451
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/70044
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2023.2188693
dc.relation.isPartOfCommunication Research and Practice
dc.rights(c) 2023 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMāori audiences
dc.subjectrepresentation
dc.subjecttelevisiondrama
dc.subjectcolonial trauma
dc.subjectimagining resistance
dc.titleImagining resistance: Māori audiences resist trauma and reimagine representations in television dramas
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id460986
pubs.organisational-groupCollege of Health
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