Reverse Shots
Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context
Published on 30. December 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-1-55458-335-5 (ISBN)
Description
From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the negativity.
The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway.
The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55458-335-5 (9781554583355)
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Persons
Wendy Gay Pearson is an associate professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research at Western University in London, Ontario. Her current research project involves the impact of modes of distribution on the politics and aesthetics of Indigenous film. She is co-editing a volume on the politics of representation of Indigenous girls and women.
Susan Knabe is an associate professor in both Media Studies and Women's Studies at the Western University in London, Ontario. Her research covers the construction of gender and sexuality in discourses of health and disease as well as the representation of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity in film and media. Her forthcoming book is titled Affective Traces: AIDS Cultural Production and the Legacy of the Holocaust.
Susan Knabe is an associate professor in both Media Studies and Women's Studies at the Western University in London, Ontario. Her research covers the construction of gender and sexuality in discourses of health and disease as well as the representation of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity in film and media. Her forthcoming book is titled Affective Traces: AIDS Cultural Production and the Legacy of the Holocaust.
Content
Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context, edited by Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe
Part I. Dream Makers
Introduction: Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe
1. He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film Michael Greyeyes
Part II. Decolonizing Histories
2. Speakin' Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices Ernie Blackmore
3. Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt Susan Knabe
4. The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema Kerstin Knopf
5. Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk Colleen McGloin
6.""Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away"": Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas and 10 Canoes Wendy Gay Pearson
Part III. Mediating Practices
7. Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand Jo Smith and Sue Abel
8. Superhighway across the Sky ... Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski
9. On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove
Part IV. Documentary Approaches
10. The Prince George Metis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary Stephen Foster and Mike Evans
11. ""Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone"": Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew Ute Lischke
12. Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro Maeghan Pirie
13. ""I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are"": Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of History Gail Vanstone
Part V. Other Perspectives
14. Filming Indigeneity as Flanerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater Tanis MacDonald
15. Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk Davinia Thornley
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Part I. Dream Makers
Introduction: Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe
1. He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film Michael Greyeyes
Part II. Decolonizing Histories
2. Speakin' Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices Ernie Blackmore
3. Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt Susan Knabe
4. The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema Kerstin Knopf
5. Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk Colleen McGloin
6.""Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away"": Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas and 10 Canoes Wendy Gay Pearson
Part III. Mediating Practices
7. Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand Jo Smith and Sue Abel
8. Superhighway across the Sky ... Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski
9. On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove
Part IV. Documentary Approaches
10. The Prince George Metis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary Stephen Foster and Mike Evans
11. ""Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone"": Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew Ute Lischke
12. Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro Maeghan Pirie
13. ""I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are"": Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of History Gail Vanstone
Part V. Other Perspectives
14. Filming Indigeneity as Flanerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater Tanis MacDonald
15. Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk Davinia Thornley
Glossary
Bibliography
Index