Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context

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Reverse Shots

Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

About this book

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.

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Contributor: Wendy Gay Pearson

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.

--- Contributor: Susan Knabe

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.

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``Running the spectrum from the chapter by Michael Greyeyes ‘He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film’, to the healing humor from Drew Hayden Taylor's ‘Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew’, to pre-colonial representations in ‘Atanarjuat’, and ‘10 Canoes’ this volume fascinates, educates, and leaves you wanting more.... Highly recommended for all Tribal Colleges, four year colleges and universities, and any institution or research center which deals with Indigenous people.''

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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Dream Makers
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Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media
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Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe

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He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film
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Michael Greyeyes

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Decolonizing Histories
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Speakin’ Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices
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Ernie Blackmore

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Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt
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Susan Knabe

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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema
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Kerstin Knopf

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Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair’s The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk
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Colleen Mcgloin

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“Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away”: Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes
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Wendy Gay Pearson

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Mediating Practices
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Ka Whawhai Tonu Ma-tou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand
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Jo Smith and Sue Abel

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Superhighway across the Sky . . . Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser
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Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski

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On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South
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Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove

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Documentary Approaches
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The Prince George Métis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary
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Stephen Foster and Mike Evans

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“Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone”: Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew
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Ute Lischke

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Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro
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Maeghan Pirie

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“I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are”: Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd’s Hands of History
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Gail Vanstone

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Other Perspectives
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Filming Indigeneity as Flânerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette’s Heater
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Tanis Macdonald

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Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Index
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Books in the Film+Media Studies Series
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February 19, 2024

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9781554584253

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392

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16

https://doi.org/10.51644/9781554584253

eBook ISBN: 9781554584253

Keywords for this book

Cultural Studies; Film & Media; Indigenous Studies

Audience(s) for this book

For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Reverse Shots

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Front Matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media

He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film

Speakin’ Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices

Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema

Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair’s The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk

“Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away”: Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes

Ka Whawhai Tonu Ma-tou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Superhighway across the Sky . . . Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser

On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South

The Prince George Métis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary

“Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone”: Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew

Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro

“I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are”: Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd’s Hands of History

Filming Indigeneity as Flânerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette’s Heater

Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Books in the Film+Media Studies Series

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Reverse Shots

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Front Matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media

He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film

Speakin’ Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices

Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema

Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair’s The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk

“Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away”: Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes

Ka Whawhai Tonu Ma-tou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Superhighway across the Sky . . . Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser

On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South

The Prince George Métis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary

“Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone”: Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew

Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro

“I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are”: Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd’s Hands of History

Filming Indigeneity as Flânerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette’s Heater

Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Books in the Film+Media Studies Series

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