Shimmering Screens Making Media in an Aboriginal Community

Name: Shimmering Screens Making Media in an Aboriginal Community
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ISBN: 9780816649228

ISBN-10: 0816649227

ISBN-13: 9780816649228

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jennifer Deger

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How does the introduction of modern media influence a community? How does technology coexist with tradition? How do reality and imagination converge in the creation of documentary? Jennifer Deger addresses these questions in her compelling study of one aboriginal community’s relationship with media. Deger spent several years working with the Yolngu community in Gapuwiyak, a remote aboriginal community in Australia, both as an ethnographic researcher and as a collaborator in the production of media. Shimmering Screens explores the place of technology in Gapuwiyak through discussions about the influence of mainstream television, the changing role of photography in mortuary ceremonies, and the…

Book details

List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 11/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English