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Author Michaels, Eric, 1948-1988

Title Bad Aboriginal art : tradition, media and technological horizons / Eric Michaels ; foreword by Dick Hebdige ; introduction by Marcia Langton
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xlix, 203 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Theory out of bounds ; v. 3
Theory out of bounds ; v. 3.
Contents 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
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Subject Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Communication
Communication.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
sociology of knowledge.
Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
Media -- Broadcast media -- Television.
Archives and archiving -- Sound.
Film -- Film making.
Race relations -- Representation -- Media.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
ART -- Criticism & Theory.
Communication
Knowledge, Sociology of
Walbiri (volk)
Communicatie.
Televisie.
Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816685462
0816685460