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1 Calling the Shots : Aboriginal Photographies : Review Faye Ginsburg , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 46 no. 3 2015; (p. 477-478)
— Review of Calling the Shots : Aboriginal Photographies 2014 anthology criticism 'The phrase ‘calling the shots’, the title of this remarkable collection, indicates who is in charge of a situation, and it highlights an intellectually refreshing approach: the decolonising of photographic images of Aboriginal subjects. Here, Australian colonial photography is being recuperated by and/or in collaboration with Indigenous authors and subjects...'
1 Breaking the Law with Two Laws : Reflections on a Paradigm Shift Faye Ginsburg , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Documentary Film , vol. 2 no. 2 2008; (p. 169-174)

'In this commentary, Faye Ginsburg contextualizes the importance of the film, Two Laws, noting that its emergence in the world of documentary cinema constituted a paradigm shift, drawing upon Thomas Kuhn's identification of this process within models of scientific progress. She discusses its impact by suggesting its significance as paralleling that of Jean Rouch in the world of ethnographic cinema and she outlines its influence on the emergence of indigenous media in central Australia in the 1980s.'  (Publication abstract)
1 A History of Indigenous Futures : Accounting for Indigenous Art and Media Faye Ginsburg , Fred Myers , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 30 no. 2006; (p. 95-110)
1 Blak Screens and Cultural Citizenship Faye Ginsburg , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Visual Anthropology Review , vol. 21 no. 1 & 2 2006; (p. 80-97) Research into how the “media worlds” of Indigenous feature filmmaking came into being in Australia is part of the broader project of the burgeoning work in the ethnography of media, which turns the analytic lens of anthropology on the production, circulation and consumption of media in a variety of locales, in this case asking what role these media play in the discursive evolution of new ways of conceptualizing diversity, contributing to the expanding (if contested) understandings of Australia as a culturally diverse nation, something that activist filmmakers have long understood. Their films contribute to that process not only by offering alternative accountings that undermine the fictions presented by unified national narratives as they play on screen; their work (in both senses of the word) also demonstrates that a textual analysis is not sufficient if it does not also take into account the “off screen” cultural and political labor of Aboriginal activists whose interventions have made this possible. More broadly, I underscore the importance of media and those who make it as critical to understanding how contemporary states and their citizens negotiate diversity. - Author's abstract.
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