Hart Cohen

The Strehlow Archive

Explorations in Old and New Media

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Strehlow Archive is one of Australia's most important collections of film, sound, archival records and museum objects relating to the ceremonial life of Aboriginal people. The aim of this book is to provide a significant study of the relationship of archives to contemporary forms of digital mediation. The volume introduces a specific archive

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780367890025
• ISBN-10: 036789002X
• Artikelnr.: 58438272

Autorenporträt

Hart Cohen is Professor in Media Arts in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a member of the Institute for Culture and Society and the Digital Humanities Research Group at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the co-author of Screen Media Arts, winner of best textbook-Australian Publishers Association, 2009, and is editor of the Global Media Journal, Australian Edition: 2007-present.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Archaeologies of the digital archive and the persistence
of cultural memory
2. The Strehlow Collection: A Dangerous Archive
3. The Remote Aboriginal Community of Hermannsburg/Ntaria
4. Mr. Strehlow's Films: Digitising the Dreaming
5. Image archives as totemic geomedia
6. Databases and the book: T.G.H. Strehlow's Journey to Horseshoe Bend
7. Cantata Journey: Songs and Central Australia
8. Cultural Re-Integration, Participatory Archives and Aboriginal Knowing
9. Conclusion: Genealogies of memory, an ethos of storytelling?