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

By: Contributor(s): Series: Visible evidence ; v. 19.Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.Description: xxxv, 267 p. : ill. ; 27 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.89/915 22
LOC classification:
  • DU125.Y64 D44 2006eb
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index.

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.

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