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

• Autore: Deger Jennifer
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2006; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxv, 267 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 305.89/915
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Shimmering screens
• ISBN: 0-8166-9901-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784394803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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