Indigenous screen cultures in Canada / edited by Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson and Marian Bredin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, editor.

Bredin, Marian, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Canada.

Mass media.

Indian motion pictures--Canada.

Indian motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Indigenous media challenges the power of the state, erodes communication monopolies, and illuminates government threats to indigenous cultural, social, economic, and political sovereignty. Its effectiveness in these areas, however, is hampered by government control of broadcast frequencies, licensing, and legal limitations over content and ownership.Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada explores key questions surrounding the power and suppression of indigenous narrative and representation in contemporary indigenous media. Focussing primarily on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, the authors also examine indigenous language broadcasting in radio, television, and film; Aboriginal journalism practices; audience creation within and beyond indigenous communities; the roles of program scheduling and content acquisition policies in the decolonization process; the roles of digital video technologies and co-production agreements in indigenous filmmaking; and the emergence of Aboriginal cyber-communities.

Contents:

Introduction / Marian Bredin and Sigurjoþn baldur Hafsteinsson

The cultural history of Aboriginal media in Canada. First peoples' television in Canada : origins of the Aboriginal peoples television network / Lorna Roth ; Clear signals : learning and maintaining Aboriginal languages through television / Jennifer David

APTN and indigenous screen cultures. Aboriginal journalism practices as deep democracy : APTN National News / Sigurjoþn Baldur Hafsteinsson ; APTN and its audiences / Marian Bredin ; Aboriginal media on the move : an outside perspective on APTN / Kerstin Knopf ; Regina's Moccasin flats : a landmark in the mapping og urban Aboriginal culture and identity / Christine Ramsay

Transforming technologies and emerging media circuits. Co-producing First Nations' narratives : the journals of Knud Rasmussen / Doris Baltruschat ; Wearing the white man's shoes : two worlds in cyberspace / Mike Patterson ; Taking a stance : Aboriginal media research as an act of empowerment / Yvonne Poitras Pratt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2017).

ISBN:

9786613091451

9781283091459

1283091453

9780887553998

0887553990

OCLC:

1032909305