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Indigenous Media (indigenous + media)

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Selected Abstracts

Indigenous Media Gone Global: Strengthening Indigenous Identity On- and Offscreen at the First Nations/First Features Film Showcase

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2006
KRISTIN DOWELL
For 12 days in May 2005, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), as well as several other screening venues in Washington, D.C., hosted a group of renowned indigenous filmmakers from around the globe for the groundbreaking film showcase, "First Nations/First Features: A Showcase of World Indigenous Film and Media." This film showcase highlighted the innovative ways in which indigenous filmmakers draw on indigenous storytelling practices to create cinematic visions that honor their long-standing indigenous cultural worlds while reaching local and world audiences. In this essay, I highlight the onscreen impact through an analysis of several films featured in First Nations/First Features, as well as the offscreen impact emphasizing how the indigenous directors used this opportunity to strengthen social networks and share experience in this industry, which may develop into future collaborative film projects. [source]

Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 3 2010
KRISTIN DOWELL
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Best of the Sámi Film Festival 2008

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2009
ALISON COOL
ABSTRACT, In June of 2008, the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the National Museum of the American Indian presented a screening of selections originally shown at the 12th annual Sámi Film Festival held in Norway. This marked the first time that a version of the festival, which features works by and about the indigenous peoples of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, was presented in New York. Three of the films shown,Last Yoik in Saami Forests?, Herdswoman, and Calmmis Calbmái (From an Eye to an Eye),examined how Sámi communities draw on shared traditions as a productive resource for reimagining Sámi identity in a contemporary context. [Keywords: Sámi, Scandinavia, indigenous media, ethnographic film] [source]

From the Ground, Looking Up: Report on the Video nas Aldeias Tour

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2009
LUCAS BESSIRE
ABSTRACT, This report compares two recent media events centered on the iconography of Amazonian indigenous peoples to highlight the cultural activism of the collaborative video project, Video nas Aldeias. [Keywords: Amazonia, Video nas Aldeias, indigenous media, cultural activism] [source]