 | Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community Subjects: Yolngu (Australian people) -- Social life and customs; Aboriginal Australians and mass media; Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures; Motion pictures in ethnology; Video recordings in ethnology; 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 OC media imperialism.OCO Reconsidering assumptions about the links between representation, power, and OC the gaze, OCO she proposes the possibility of a more mutual relationship between subject, image, and viewer." |
