Eric Michaels: Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons (1994)
Filed under book | Tags: · aboriginal art, anthropology, art, australia, ethnography, film, photography, postmodernism, television
“Bad Aboriginal Art is the extraordinary account of Eric Michaels’ period of residence and work with the Warlpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on remote Aboriginal communities.
Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, Michaels records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that community’s forays into the technology of broadcasting. Michaels’s analyses in Bad Aboriginal Art will disrupt and redirect current debates surrounding the theory and practice of anthropology, ethnography, film and video making, communications policy, and media studies—no less than his work has already disrupted and redirected the cultural technologies of both the Warlpiri and Australian technocrats.”
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1994
ISBN 0816623414, 9780816623419
203 pages
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Comment (1)Dona Kolar-Panov: Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1990s, australia, migration, video, war, yugoslavia
Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Macedonian and Croatian communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes that affected these diasporic groups on the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. She vividly describes the migrant audience’s daily emcounter with the media images of destruction and atrocities committed in Croatia and Bosnia, and charts the implications the continuous viewing of the real and excessive violence had on the awakening of their ethno-national consciousness.
Publisher Routledge, 1997
ISBN 0415148804, 9780415148801
270 pages
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Serbian, Western Australia, Stjepan Radic, Serbs, SFRJ, Perth, SBS-TV, Vukovar, semiosphere, Republic of Macedonia, Zagreb, Opuzen, satellite television, Skopje, video tapes, Sibenik, Aegean Macedonia, folk music, Croatian diaspora, intertitle
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