Shimmering screens : making media in an Aboriginal community / Jennifer Deger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deger, Jennifer.

Series:

Visible evidence ; v. 19.

Visible evidence ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yolngu (Australian people)--Social life and customs.

Yolngu (Australian people).

Aboriginal Australians and mass media.

Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures.

Motion pictures in ethnology.

Video recording in ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 267 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9901-1

OCLC:

476096150