Shimmering screens : making media in an aboriginal community /
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 assump...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | Visible evidence ;
v. 19. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of 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.
