Reverse Shots : Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context / Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pearson, Wendy G., editor.

Knabe, Susan Margaret, 1962- editor.

Series:

Film + media studies.

Film and media studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples and mass media.

Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.

Indigenous films--History and criticism.

Indigenous films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Pt. I. Dream makers. Globalizing indigenous film and media / Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe

He who dreams : reflections on an indigenous life in film / Michael Greyeyes

pt II. Decolonizing histories. Speakin' out blak : new and emergent Aboriginal filmmakers finding their voices / Ernie Blackmore

Taking pictures b(l)ack : the work of Tracey Moffatt / Susan Knabe

The journals of Knud Rasmussen : Arctic history as post/colonial cinema / Kerstin Knopf

Australian indigenous short film as a pedagogical device : introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black talk / Colleen McGloin

"Once upon a time in a land far, far away" : representations of the pre-colonial world in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 canoes / Wendy Gay Pearson

pt III. Mediating practices. Ke Whawhai Tonu Mātou : indigenous television in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Jo Smith and Sue Abel

Superhighway across the sky ... Aboriginal new media arts in Australia : a remix and email conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser / Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski

On collectivity and the limits of collaboration : caching Igloolik video in the south / Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove

pt. IV. Documentary approaches. The Prince George Métis Elders documentary project : matching product with process in new forms of documentary / Stephen Foster and Mike Evans

"Whacking the indigenous funny bone" : native humour and its healing powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, tricksters, and puppy stew / Ute Lischke

Situating indigenous knowledges : the talking back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro / Maeghan Pirie

"I wanted to say how beautiful we are" : cultural politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of history / Gail Vanstone

pt. V. Other perspectives. Filming indigeneity as Flânerie : dialectic and subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater / Tanis MacDonald

Playing with land issues : subversive hybridity in The price of milk / Davinia Thornley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-344) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781554584260

1554584264

9781554584253

1554584256

OCLC:

907558286