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Author Deger, Jennifer.

Title Shimmering screens [electronic resource] : making media in an aboriginal community / Jennifer Deger.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

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Description xxxv, 267 p. : ill.
Series Visible evidence ; v. 19
Visible evidence ; v. 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0816649219 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816649211 (hc : alk. paper)
0816649227 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816649228 (pb : alk. paper)

 
    
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