Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context (Film and Media Studies)

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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. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements PART I: DREAM MAKERS INTRODUCTION: Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media ONE: He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film PART II: DECOLONIZING HISTORIES TWO: Speakin’ Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices THREE: Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt FOUR: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema FIVE: Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair’s The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk SIX: "Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away”: Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes PART III: MEDIATING PRACTICES SEVEN: Ka Whawhai Tonu Mātou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand EIGHT: Superhighway across the Sky ... Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser NINE: On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South PART IV: DOCUMENTARY APPROACHES TEN: The Prince George Métis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary ELEVEN: "Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone”: Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew TWELVE: Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro THIRTEEN: "I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are”: Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd’s Hands of History PART V: OTHER PERSPECTIVES FOURTEEN: Filming Indigeneity as Flânerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette’s Heater FIFTEEN: Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk Glossary B C D F H I K L M N O P R S T W Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z