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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825339403321

Autore

Deger Jennifer

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8166-9901-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxv, 267 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Visible evidence ; ; v. 19

Disciplina

305.89/915

Soggetti

Yolngu (Australian people) - Social life and customs

Aboriginal Australians and mass media

Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures

Motion pictures in ethnology

Video recording in ethnology

Race relations - Representation - Media

Film - Ethnographic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.