Foreword / Dick Hebdige -- Introduction / Marcia Langton -- A Note to the Reader / Michael Leigh -- Acknowledgments / Paul Foss -- I.A Primer of Restrictions on Picture-Taking in Traditional Areas of Aboriginal Australia -- II. Aboriginal Content: Who's Got It -- Who Needs It? -- III. Western Desert Sandpainting and Postmodernism -- IV. Hundreds Shot at Aboriginal Community: ABC Makes TV Documentary at Yuendumu -- V. Hollywood Iconography: A Warlpiri Reading -- VI. For a Cultural Future: Francis Jupurrurla Makes TV at Yuendumu -- VII. If "All Anthropologists Are Liars ..." -- VIII. Bad Aboriginal Art -- IX. Para-Ethnography -- Postscript: My Essay on Postmodernism -- A Bibliography of Eric Michaels
Summary
Collection of papers by Eric Michaels written during period of work with Warlpiri on development of Aboriginal television; all papers annotated separately; foreword by Dick Hebdige discusses Michaels's style of analytical assessment; Marcia Langton describes his work at Yuendumu; Michael Leigh describes his work at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the developments in Aboriginal filmmaking since Michaels's death
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-198) and index