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Author Bryson, Ian.

Title Bringing to light : a history of ethnographic filmmaking at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies / Ian Bryson
Published Acton Penninsula, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2002

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 MELB  302.23439915 Bry/Btl  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 110 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
regular print
Series Report series
Report series (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
Contents Foreword: Illuminating a contact zone / Faye Ginsburg and Fred Myers -- Ch. 1. Camera science and the cinematic apparatus -- Ch. 2. Aborigines, film and science -- Ch. 3. Capturing a changing culture: The first phase of the Film Unit -- Ch. 4. Recording culture in transition: The second phase of the Film Unit -- Ch. 5. Methodology: A comparison of views -- Ch. 6. Reconceptualising ethnographic cinema in Australia: Conclusions -- App. 1. The UNESCO Round Table -- App. 2. Agreements made with Aborigines by Nicolas Peterson
Summary "The title Bringing to Light has two meanings. First, this book is an act of bringing to light a history that was gradually becoming mythologised, in part because the ethnographic films of the past are now rarely seen. Secondly, much of the film-making discussed in this book was motivated by a desire to bring to the light of film the socio-cultural life of Australia's Indigenous peoples."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-110)
Subject Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies -- History.
Aboriginal Australians in art.
Aboriginal Australians.
Documentary films -- Australia -- History.
Aborigines, Australian, in motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Australia -- History.
Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures.
Motion pictures in ethnology -- Australia -- History.
Torres Strait Islanders in motion pictures.
Genre/Form History.
Author Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
LC no. 2002483183
ISBN 085575382X paperback