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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Additional Authors

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

Description

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

Summary

Offers 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.

Series Statement

Film and media studies series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Film + media studies.

Alternative Title

Indigenous film and media in an international context

Subject

• Moffat, Tracey
• Blair, Wayne
• Ten Canoes (Motion picture: 2008)
• 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 and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1. Dream makers -- Globalizing Indigenous film and media -- He who dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous life in film --Part 2. Decolonizing histories -- Speakin' out Blak: New and emergent Aboriginal filmmakers finding their voices -- Taking pictures (B)lack: The work of Tracey Moffatt -- The journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic history as post/colonial cinema -- Australian Indigenous short film as a pedagogical device: Introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black talk "Once upon a time in a land far, far away": Representations of the pre-colonial worlk in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes -- Part 3. Mediating practices -- Ke Whawhai Tonu Mātou: Indigenous television in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Superhighway across the sky ... Aboriginal new media arts in Australia: A remix and email conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser -- On collectivity and the limits of collaboration: Caching Igloolik video in the south -- Part 4. Documentary approaches -- The Prince George Métis Elders documentary project: Matching product with process in new forms of documentary -- "Whacking the Indigenous funny bone": Native humour and its healing powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, Tricksters, and puppy stew -- Situating Indigenous knowledges: The talking back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro -- "I wanted to say how beautiful we are": Cultural politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of history -- Part 5. Other perspectives -- Filming indigeneity as Flânerie: Dialectic and subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater -- Playing with land issues: subversive hybridity in The price of milk.

ISBN

• 9781554583355
• 1554583357

OCLC

• 899287770
• SCSB-11891249

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library