Research Catalog

Title

Reverse shots : indigenous film and media in an international context / Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe, editors.

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pearson, Wendy G.
• Knabe, Susan Margaret, 1962-

Description

xi, 372 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway."--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Film and media studies series

Uniform Title

Film + media studies.

Alternative Title

Indigenous film and media in an international context

Subject

• Indigenous films > History and criticism
• Indigenous peoples in motion pictures
• Indigenous peoples and mass media
• Indigenous films

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-344) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Dream makers. Globalizing indigenous film and media / Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe -- He who dreams : reflections on an indigenous life in film / Michael Greyeyes -- pt II. Decolonizing histories. Speakin' out blak : new and emergent Aboriginal filmmakers finding their voices / Ernie Blackmore -- Taking pictures b(l)ack : the work of Tracey Moffatt / Susan Knabe -- The journals of Knud Rasmussen : Arctic history as post/colonial cinema / Kerstin Knopf -- Australian indigenous short film as a pedagogical device : introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black talk / Colleen McGloin -- "Once upon a time in a land far, far away" : representations of the pre-colonial world in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 canoes / Wendy Gay Pearson -- pt III. Mediating practices. Ke Whawhai Tonu Mātou : indigenous television in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Jo Smith and Sue Abel -- Superhighway across the sky ... Aboriginal new media arts in Australia : a remix and email conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser / Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski -- On collectivity and the limits of collaboration : caching Igloolik video in the south / Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove -- pt. IV. Documentary approaches. The Prince George Métis Elders documentary project : matching product with process in new forms of documentary / Stephen Foster and Mike Evans -- "Whacking the indigenous funny bone" : native humour and its healing powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, tricksters, and puppy stew / Ute Lischke -- Situating indigenous knowledges : the talking back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro / Maeghan Pirie -- "I wanted to say how beautiful we are" : cultural politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of history / Gail Vanstone -- pt. V. Other perspectives. Filming indigeneity as Flânerie : dialectic and subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater / Tanis MacDonald -- Playing with land issues : subversive hybridity in The price of milk / Davinia Thornley.

Call Number

MFL 15-2695

ISBN

• 9781554583355 (pbk.)
• 1554583357 (pbk.)
• 9781554584253 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781554584260 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

899287770

Title

Reverse shots : indigenous film and media in an international context / Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe, editors.

Imprint

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2015.

Series

Film and media studies series

Film + media studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-344) and index.

Added Author

Pearson, Wendy G.

Knabe, Susan Margaret, 1962-

Note

Indigenous film and media in an international context

Research Call Number

MFL 15-2695