Werewolf #12 Out Now - Special Anniversary Issue

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Happy anniversary one and all. June 2010 marks the 50th birthday of television in this country, which triggered this months’ cover interview with TVNZ chief executive Rick Ellis about the state of the state broadcaster. This month also marks a milestone for Werewolf itself, which is now one year old.

Elsewhere in this issue, James Robinson asks if sport is now a business (but is not only a business) what sort of business model is most appropriate for it? Should sport be a completely open market, or should it be subject to the usual rules and regulations needed to ensure that business markets stay free and competitive? In the process, James considers whether salary caps are good, bad and/or impractical. This month, Werewolf also examines the creepily similar ways in which state power and corporate power can abuse artists – as exemplified by the regime in Teheran prosecuting the Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi, and by Chevron Oil taking court action against the US film-maker Joe Berlinger for his documentary about Chevron’s role in polluting the Amazon rain forest.

Down the ages, women have been expected to grin and bear catcalls and other types of street harassment. Melody Thomas begins her article by looking at the sociological evidence on how street sexism affects the way men and women perceive and behave towards each other – and then looks at what women (and men) can do to combat these kinds of sexual harassment. In recent months we have heard a lot about those young Norwegians shooting native pigeons and UK visitor Carey Davies has written an article asking whether - by promoting itself as a rip, shit and bust outdoors playground - New Zealand is attracting the sort of visitors likely to show no respect for the cultural environment, either. Two stories in this issue are about steam trains. In one, we showcase the extraordinary photographs of O. Winston Link, as he documented the last era of great steam locomotives and captured some indelible images of 1950s Americas in the process. In The Complicatist music column, we celebrate the greatest ever train songs to the point of asking – has anyone ever written a really bad song about trains? In his Milestone Movies column, Brannavan Gnanalingham discusses the incredibly fertile Iranian film industry starting with Forough Farrokhzad’s trail-blazing short film The House is Black. Finally, Robert C. O’Brien’s Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is this month’s entry in the classic children’s books column.

Cartoon Alley features new works by Tim Bollinger, Ned Wenlock and Brent Willis.

As mentioned, this issues marks a year of Werewolf. For making it possible, I’d like to thank Alistair Thompson, Lyndon Hood, David McLellan, George McLellan, Billy Naylor, Rosalea Barker, James Robinson, Melody Thomas, Catriona MacLennan, Denis O’Reilly, Brannavan Gnanalingham, Tim Bollinger, Leo Hupert, Curtis Baigent, Ned Wenlock, Brent Willis, Mark O’Brien, Anthony Behrens, Glen Johnson, Conor MacHugh, Nina Fowler, Robyn Keneally, Nina Arron, Jason Gush, Anthony Hawkins and especially my wife, Rose O’Connor. Thanks also, to everyone who has read it. Onwards and upwards.

Cheers,

Gordon Campbell

Werewolf/Scoop

The contents of this edition are:

Humbler Days On Hobson St : TVNZ in Hard Times
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/humbler-days-on-hobson-st-tvnz-in-hard-times/
An interview with Rick Ellis, CEO of Television New Zealand
by Gordon Campbell

When Regimes and Corporations Take Aim at Artists
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/when-regimes-and-corporations-take-aim-at-artists/
Chevron Oil and the mullahs in Teheran reveal just how much they have in common
by Gordon Campbell

Calling out the catcallers
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/calling-out-the-catcallers/
Everybody loses when it comes to the street harassment of women
by Melody Thomas

Tie Me Salary Cap Down, Sport
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/tie-me-salary-cap-down-sport/
Should there be any restraint of trade rules when it comes to sport?
by James Robinson

When Tourists Turn Ugly
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/when-tourists-turn-ugly/
Does New Zealand sometimes reap what it has sown from its tourism promotion ?
by Carey Davies

Classics : Mrs Frisby and The Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien ( 1971)
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/classics-mrs-frisby-and-the-rats-of-nimh-by-robert-c-obrien-1971/
Can genetically modified animals ever rejoin the natural world?
by Gordon Campbell

Goodbye to the Iron Buffalo
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/goodbye-to-the-iron-buffalo/
The strange case of railroad photographer O. Winston Link
by Gordon Campbell

From The Hood : Some more of me polemics
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/from-the-hood-some-more-of-me-polemics/
The author is reincarnated into the body of a free verse poet
by Lyndon Hood

Milestone Movies : The House is Black (1962)
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/milestone-movies-the-house-is-black-1962/
Iran’s cinema of hope, amid states of repression
by Brannavan Gnanalingham

The Complicatist : Fear of Trains
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/the-complicatist-fear-of-trains/
Has anyone ever written a bad song about trains?
by Gordon Campbell

Cartoon Alley
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/cartoon-alley/
Reviews, commentary and comics from local artists
by Werewolf

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