| Reference Type |
book
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| Title |
Sites of Difference: cinematic representations of Aboriginality and gender |
| Author(s) | Karen Jennings |
| Town |
South Melbourne |
| Comments |
This book provides a detailed examination of the debates surrounding notions of race and identity formations. Presents valuable information concerniung the politics of essentialist representations of Aboriginality in the Australian Cinema and examines a number of films which appropiate and subvert colonial representational strategies. Includes detailed analyses of Journey Among Women, Jedda, We of the Never Never, Eliza Fraser, Manganinnie, Backlash, The Fringedwellers and Deadly. This book is ideal for anyone intersted in representations of Aboriginal culture in Australian film but more specificaly the cultural politics of inter and intra cultural difference.
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| Synopsis |
Discusses the perpetuation of mythologies and stereotypes pertaining to Aboriginality in the Australian Cinema. Examines the cultural construction of Aboriginal identies and the changing notions of race in colonial and postcolonial discursive practices. Analyses the disparate representations of Aboriginality in selected films. Provides a critique of representations of difference founded upon race and examines the cultural politics of representations of difference within Aboriginal culture.
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