“Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television” : An essay for the Australian Film Commission on the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking by and about Aboriginal people and Things

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA Performing Arts Cinema –

Marcia Langton analyses the making and watching of films, videos and TV programs by Aboriginal people in remote and settled Australia. She introduces theoretical perspectives to investigate concepts of Aboriginality and presents case studies of films such as Jedda, Tracey Moffatt’s Night Cries, Brian Syron’s Jindalee Lady and Ned Lander and Rachel Perkin’s film of the Warlpiri Fire Ceremony Jardiwarnpa. The central requirement is to develop a body of knowledge on representation of Aboriginal people and their concerns in art , film, television or other media and a critical perspective to do with aesthetics and politics, drawing from Aboriginal world views, from western traditions and from history.

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• 93 p. ; 22 cm. #010625

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Social identity – Aboriginality
  • Media – Video recordings
  • Photography – Ethnographic
  • Media – Broadcast media – Radio
  • Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
  • Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
  • Northern Territory – Central NT

  Subject:

  • Aboriginal Australians, in mass media
  • Ethnic mass media — Australia
  • Mass media and race relations — Australia