The Dominion of Signs
Television, Advertising and Other New Zealand Fictions
Nick Perry

What led to the rise and fall of New Zealand’s
Telethon? Why was Billy T. James so popular?
Why would the director of La Dolce Vita be
interested in four All Blacks performing a haka?
What is the connection between Miami Vice,
KZ7 and the BNZ?

This book tackles such questions with both
wit and scholarship. It is cultural commentary for
the present, ranging easily between television,
commercials, biographies, popular magazines,
films and novels; a path-breaking work which
cuts across traditional disciplinary distincions and
challenge coventional forms of evaluation.
RRP$34.95
AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS