Editing for Public Consumption: the Use of Documentary Film in the Promotion of New Zealand’s Mental Hospitals

  • Rebecca McLaughlan Victoria University of Wellington

Abstract


Architectural design and text-based press releases were the Public  Relations tools traditionally employed by New Zealand’s Mental Hospitals Department. The arrival of television to New Zealand in 1960 offered a new medium: the documentary film. This paper will evaluate the evolution of the Department’s propaganda campaign following the availability of documentary film.
Published
20-Jan-2014
How to Cite
McLaughlan, Rebecca. 2014. “Editing for Public Consumption: The Use of Documentary Film in the Promotion of New Zealand’s Mental Hospitals”. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, January. https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.0.691.