Producing Sovereignty

Karrmen Crey is assistant professor of Aboriginal communication and media studies in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

"Producing Sovereignty is a must-read for those interested in the theoretical fundamentals of Indigenous media studies. By unearthing and revealing the subjugated histories and materiality of Indigenous artists and filmmakers, Karrmen Crey provides a crucial lens into the co-constitutive production of Indigenous aesthetics as an outcome of institutional contestations."-Brendan Hokowhitu, University of Queensland "One of the most engaging and sophisticated books in the field, Producing Sovereignty uses highly immersive case studies to locate Indigenous media within wider social movements and cultural developments in North America. Karrmen Crey speaks to the decolonizing force of Indigenous media-not only as expressions of Indigenous cultural sovereignty but as destabilizing forces within contemporary settler societies."-Marian Bredin, coeditor of Canadian Television: Text and Context"Crey’s book is thoroughly documented and well illustrated with stills from films and videos. She declares that her ambition is to create a template for future media studies, and she has surely achieved that goal. The bibliography is detailed and the index is intelligently designed."-Choice

• Contents Introduction: Indigenous Politics, the State, and Media Institutions in Canada 1. Prairie Voices: Doug Cuthand, Provincial Television, and the National Film Board of Canada 2. The Aboriginal Film and Video Art Alliance: Negotiating Indigenous Self-Government in the Arts 3. Programming Indigeneity: Indigenous Television Production in the Era of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network 4. Indigenous Documentaries and Academic Research Institutions: Navajo Talking Picture and Cry Rock5. Resisting Colonial Relations in Virtual Reality: Highway of TearsAfterword Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index