ABSTRACT
In recent years, the use of new forms of cultural production by Indigenous Australians has made an important contribution to their changing status in relation to the political, social, and economic structures of the nation. Noted Indigenous academic, Marcia Langton (1994, p. 90), describes the rise of Indigenous film, television, music and art as a “cultural efflorescence” which is enabling Indigenous peoples to renegotiate their identities and relations with white Australians. The flowering of new media forms is also enabling the transformation of Indigenous Australians from colonial objects to post-colonial subjects. Aboriginality, Langton argues, “is a field of intersubjectivity in that it is re-made over and over again in a process of dialogue, of imagination, of representation and interpretation.” Further, she writes, “both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people create Aboriginalities” (1994, pp. 99-100).
