Celluloid Subjects to Digital Directors: Changing Aboriginalities and Australian Documentary Film, 1901–2017

ISBN-13: 9781789974782 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 232 str.

Jennifer Debenham

Opis

This book is based on a study of Australian documentary films produced by and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders since the early twentieth century. The book aims to expose the course of race relations in Australia in documentary film by Aboriginal filmmakers, tracing their struggle to achieve social justice and self-representation.

Recenzje

«This book provides a welcome overview of an intensely important area of Australian cinema history, tracing developments which have affected real lives among our Indigenous peoples. Debenham's work is rich with information and insights, and is admirably accessible for both educational and general publics.» (Andrew Pike, Managing Director, Pike Films)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: 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 (1967) - Not Dying Out Quietly: Warburton Aborigines (1957) - A Discomforting Assimilation: The Change At Groote (1968) - Challenging White Indifference: Ningla-A-Na (Hungry for Our Land) (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 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).

O autorze

Jennifer Debenham holds a doctorate in Australian History from the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has lectured and tutored Australian history and sociology. She is currently a Conjoint Lecturer and Senior Research Assistant at the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her interests are in early contact histories, mythology, representation, memory and race. Previous publications include The Australia Day Regatta, co-authored with Christine Cheater (2014), and the online publication Colonial Frontier Massacres in Eastern Australia, 1788-1872, coauthored with Lyndall Ryan, William Pascoe and Mark Brown (2017).