| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 267 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Visible evidence ; v. 19 |
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Visible evidence ; v. 19.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Culture and complicities : an indigenous media research project -- (In)visible difference : framing questions of culture, media, and technology -- Tuning in : mediated imaginaries and problems of deafness and forgetting -- On the "mimetic faculty" and the refractions of culture -- Taking pictures : media technologies and a Yolngu politics of presencing -- Flowers and photographs : death, memory, and techno mimetics -- Technology, techne, and Yolngu videomaking -- Shimmering verisimilitudes : making video, managing images, manifesting truths -- Worlding a Yolngu world : radiant visions and the flash of recognition -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
A rich ethnographic study, Shimmering Screens examines the productive, and sometimes problematic, conjunctions of technology, culture, and imagination in contemporary Yolngu life. Jennifer Deger offers a new perspective to ongoing debates regarding "media imperialism." Reconsidering assumptions about the links between representation, power, and "the gaze," she proposes the possibility of a more mutual relationship between subject, image, and viewer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Yolngu (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians and mass media.
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Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures in ethnology.
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Video recording in ethnology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Aboriginal Australians and mass media
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Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures
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Motion pictures in ethnology
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Video recording in ethnology
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Yolngu (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
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Aborigines.
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Murngin.
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Massamedia.
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Documentaires.
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Australië.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816699018 |
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0816699011 |
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