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

By: Deger, Jennifer.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Visible evidence: v. 19.Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006Description: xxxv, 267 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.Subject(s): Yolngu (Australian people) -- Social life and customs | Aboriginal Australians and mass media | Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures | Motion pictures in ethnology | Video recording in ethnologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.89/915 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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