Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community

by Jennifer Deger

How does the introduction of modern media influence a community? How does technology coexist with tradition? How do reality and imagination converge in the creation of documentary? Jennifer Deger addresses these questions in her compelling study of one Aboriginal community's relationship with media. Deger spent several years working with the Yolngu community in Gapuwiyak, a remote Aboriginal community in Australia, both as an ethnographic researcher...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816649227
• ISBN13: 9780816649228
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"