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Indigenous media arts in Canada : making, caring, sharing / Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton, editors.

Claxton, Dana, (editor.). Winton, Ezra, (editor.).

Summary:

"Storytelling is what connects us, what helps us give shape and understanding to the world and to each other. Who tells whose stories in which particular ways leads to questions of belonging, power, relationality, community and identity. This collection explores those issues with a focus on settler-Indigenous cultural politics in the country known as Canada, looking in particular at Indigenous representation in media arts. Chapters feature roundtable discussions, interviews, film analyses, resurgent media explorations, visual culture advocacy and place-based practices of creative expression. Eclectic in scope and diverse in perspective, Indigenous Media Arts in Canada is unified by an ethic of conciliation, collaboration, and cultural resistance. Engaging deftly and thoughtfully with instances of cultural appropriation as well as the oppressive structures that seek to erode narrative sovereignty, this collection shines as a crucial gathering of thoughtful critique, cultural kinship, and creative counterpower."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781771125413
ISBN: 1771125411
Physical Description: xii, 437 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Seeing, Knowing, Lifting / Dana Claxton, Ezra Winton -- PART I DECOLONIZING MEDIA ARTS INSTITUTIONS -- Introduction to Part I / Dana Claxton, Ezra Winton -- 1 Our Own Up There: A Discussion at imagineNATIVE / Danis Goulet, Tasha Hubbard, Jesse Wente, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Shane Belcourt -- 2 Curating the North: Documentary Screening Ethics and Inuit Representation in Cinema / Ezra Winton, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril -- 3 Sights of Homecoming: Locating Restorative Sites of Passage in Zacharias Kunuk's Festival Performance of Angirattut / Claudia Sicondolfo -- PART II PROTECTING CULTURE -- Introduction to Part II / Dana Claxton, Ezra Winton -- 4 Addressing Colonial Trauma through Mi'kmaw Film / Margaret Robinson, Bretten Hannam -- 5 Not Reconciled: The Complex Legacy of Films on Canadian "Indian" Residential Schools / Brenda Longfellow -- 6 The Resurgence of Indigenous Women in Contemporary Quebec Cinema / Karine Bertrand -- 7 "Our Circle Is Always Open": Indigenous Voices, Children's Rights, and Spaces of Inclusion in the Films of Alanis Obomsawin / Joanna Hearne -- PART III METHODS/KNOWLEDGES/INTERVENTIONS -- Introduction to Part III -- Dana Claxton, Ezra Winton -- 8 Indigenous Documentary Methodologies: ChiPaChiMoWin: Telling Stories / Jules Arita Koostachin -- 9 Marking and Mapping Out Embodied Practices through Media Art / Julie Nagam, Carla Taunton -- 10 Curatorial Insiders/Outsiders: Speaking Outside and Collaboration as Strategic Intervention / Toby Katrine Lawrence -- 11 The Generative Hope of Indigenous Interactive Media: Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Futurism / Michelle Stewart -- PART IV RESURGENT MEDIA/ALLIES/ADVOCACY -- Introduction to Part IV / Dana Claxton, Ezra Winton + Sasha Crawford-Holland, Lindsay LeBlanc -- 12 "Making Things Our [Digital] Own": Lessons on Time and Sovereignty from Indigenous Computational Art / Sasha Crawford-Holland, Lindsay LeBlanc -- 13 Careful Images: Unsettling Testimony in the Gladue Video Project / Eugenia Kisin, Lisa Jackson -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- Part 1 Beyond Words And Images / Dana Claxton, Ezra Winton -- Part 2 Setting The Record Straight / Lisa Jackson.