Celluloid Subjects to Digital Directors. Jennifer Debenham

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Название Celluloid Subjects to Digital Directors
Автор произведения Jennifer Debenham
Жанр Культурология
Серия Documentary Film Cultures
Издательство Культурология
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9781789974805



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ancient and humble beginnings. The films made the contrast more apparent to urban audiences and the scientists of the day made the most of displaying the “primitivity” of Aboriginal peoples, implying their cultures had remained static for thousands of years. The Eurocentric proclivity to view the “native” as an ahistorical figure, held them in a mythic ethnographic present or “deep history” where “inauthenticity” was the only escape. The appropriation by Aboriginal people of Western modes of dress, the incorporation of different tools for hunting such as metal axes in place ←15 | 16→of stone, denied the anthropologist the study of a “pure” form of culture. Finding and recording traditional Aboriginal social practices provided filmmakers of the early twentieth century with the popularity, notoriety and fame of this achievement.8

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       The Last of Their Kind: Aboriginal Life in Central Australia (1901)

      Aboriginal Life in Central Australia (1901), Walter Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen – directors and cinematographers. Permission: National Film and Sound Archive. Blank Map: Australia Online Map – free printable – <http://allfreeprintable.com>

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