03133nam 2200625 a 450 991078439480332120230901175301.00-8166-9901-1(CKB)1000000000346647(EBL)310760(OCoLC)476096150(SSID)ssj0000245453(PQKBManifestationID)11219803(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245453(PQKBWorkID)10176969(PQKB)11410482(MiAaPQ)EBC310760(Au-PeEL)EBL310760(CaPaEBR)ebr10180204(EXLCZ)99100000000034664720060623h20062006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierShimmering screens making media in an Aboriginal community /Jennifer DegerMinneapolis :University of Minnesota Press,2006.©20061 online resource (xxxv, 267 pages) illustrationsVisible evidence ;v. 190-8166-4921-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index.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.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.Visible evidence ;19.Yolngu (Australian people)Social life and customsAboriginal Australians and mass mediaAboriginal Australians in motion picturesMotion pictures in ethnologyVideo recording in ethnologyYolngu (Australian people)Social life and customs.Aboriginal Australians and mass media.Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures.Motion pictures in ethnology.Video recording in ethnology.305.89/915Deger Jennifer1491028MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784394803321Shimmering screens3712566UNINA