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Book SynopsisExamines the politics of representing aboriginality. This title discusses the cinematic construction and transnational circulation of aboriginality. It analyzes how indigeneity is represented in cinema. It also explores contextual issues in filmmaking such as funding, personnel, modes of production, and means of distribution.
Trade Review"Unsettling Sights is a welcome addition to the emergent field of scholarship and criticism on Indigenous media.... Columpar's clear and incisive prose makes this book accessible across the range of relevant fields, from cinema/media to Indigenous and postcolonial studies." - Faye Ginsburg, author of Mediating Culture: Indigenous Identity in the Digital Age "This book's beautifully written close analyses of a wide and varied range of films carefully attends to the cultural and political stakes of this cinema for Indigenous communities, illuminating thorny, complex issues such as sovereignty. It is without a doubt a must-read text for all cinema studies students and scholars." - Therese Davis, author of The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition and Spectatorship"
