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Shimmering screens : making media in an aboriginal community /

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 "media imperialism." Reconsidering assump...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deger, Jennifer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
Colección:Visible evidence ; v. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.