Dreaming Down the Track

Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema

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William Lempert

The product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track delves deeply into Aboriginal cinema as a transformative community process. Engaging the film career of Kukatja elder Mark Moora, William Lempert demonstrates the impact of filmmaking on how Aboriginal futures are collectively imagined and called forth.

Bearded man sits among dried grasses before a roofless ruin, the scene captured by a movie camera in the foreground. Title vertical on left.

Background photo by William Lempert

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    The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for the publication of this book by Bowdoin College.

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    978-1-4529-7337-1
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    University of Minnesota Press
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    Minneapolis, MN
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