Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Debenham, Jennifer
Titre(s) : Celluloid subjects to digital directors [Texte électronique] : changing aboriginalities and Australian documentary film, 1901-2017 / Jennifer Debenham
Publication : Oxford : Peter Lang Ltd, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (XVI-232 p.) : illustrations (some color), maps
Collection : Documentary film cultures ; volume 2
Lien à la collection : Documentary film cultures (Online)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"How did Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population go from being
the objectified subjects of documentary films to the directors and producers in the
digital age? What prompted these changes and how and when did this decolonisation
of documentary film production occur? Taking a long historical perspective, this book
is based on a study of a selection of Australian documentary films produced by and
about Aboriginal peoples since the early twentieth century. The films signpost significant
shifts in Anglo-Australian attitudes about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
and trace the growth of the Indigenous filmmaking industry in Australia. The study
considers how developments in camera and film stock technologies along with filmic
techniques influenced the depiction of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The
films are also examined within their historical context, employing them to gauge how
social attitudes, access to funding and political pressures influenced their production
values. Used as a form of resistance to the imposition of colonialism, filmmaking
gave Aboriginal people greater control over their depiction on documentary film and
the medium has become an avenue to contest widely held assumptions about a peaceful
colonial settlement. The book aims to expose the course of race relations in Australia
through the decolonisation of documentary film by Aboriginal filmmakers, tracing their
struggle to achieve social justice and self-representation"
Sujet(s) : Aborigènes d'Australie -- Au cinéma
Insulaires du détroit de Torres -- Au cinéma
Films documentaires -- Australie -- 20e siècle
Films documentaires -- Production et réalisation -- Australie -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
070.180 994 = Cinéma (journalisme) - Australie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781789974782. - ISBN 178997478X. - ISBN 9781789974799 (erroné). - ISBN 9781789974805
(erroné). - ISBN 9781789974812 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47332324w
Notice n° :
FRBNF47332324
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The last of their kind : Aboriginal life in Central Australia (1901) ; Physical
traits : Life in Central Australia (1931) ; Benign and iconic : Aborigines of the
sea coast (1950) ; The 'last' of their kind, again : Desert people (1966) ; Not
dying out quietly : Warburton Aborigines (1957) ; A discomforting assimilation :
The change at Groote (1968) ; Challenging white indifference : Ningla A Na (1972)
; Telling my story my way : My survival as an Aboriginal (1978) ; On being stolen
: Lousy little sixpence (1983) ; Picking up the broken pieces : Link-up diary (1987)
; Setting the records straight : Whispering in our hearts : the Mowla Bluff massacre
(2002) ; The sounds of spaces in between : Willaberta Jack (2007) ; Breaking the
drought at the Sydney Film Festival : We don't need a map (2017), Occupation native
(2017), In my own words (2017) and Connecting to country (2017).
