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Author Schiwy, Freya.

Title Indianizing Film : Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology
Published Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series New Directions in International Studies
New directions in international studies.
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Question of Technology; 1: Indigenous Media and the Politics of Knowledge; 2: Casting New Protagonists; 3: Cinematic Time and Visual Economy; 4: Gender, Complementarity, and the Anticolonial Gaze; 5: Nature, Indians, and Epistemic Privilege; 6: Specters and Braided Stories; 7: Indigenous Media and the Market; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary Latin American Indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Indianizing Film zooms in on a selection of award-winning and widely influential fiction and docudrama shorts, analyzing them in the wider context of Indigenous media practices and debates over decolonizing knowledge. Within this framework, Freya Schiwy approaches questions of gender, power, and representation. Schiwy argues that instead of solely creating entertainment through their work, Indigenous media activists are building communication networks that enco
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index
Includes fimography: pages 267-271
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Subject Indians of South America -- Bolivia -- Government relations
Video recording in ethnology -- Bolivia
Mass media -- Political aspects -- Bolivia
Indians in mass media.
Indian activists -- Bolivia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Indian activists
Indians in mass media
Indians of South America -- Government relations
Mass media -- Political aspects
Video recording in ethnology
Ethnologie
Medien
Bolivia
Bolivien
Indianer.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813547138
081354713X
1282094238
9781282094239
9786612094231
6612094230