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Join Dilan Erteber on April 9, 2026, 12:30 PM -- 1:30 PM in Richard A. Harvill Building at the University of Arizona, room 332A for their dissertation defense.
Indigenous Cinema is examined as a continuation of Indigenous storytelling practices grounded in relationality, oral transmission, and community accountability. Rather than approaching cinema as an aesthetic object or representational archive, the central question concerns how narrative authority persists and is reconfigured when stories rooted in collective epistemologies enter audiovisual form and circulate across divergent audiences. Through close analysis of Inuit, Kiowa, Yolngu, Aymara, and Kurdish case studies, attention is given to the independence of adaptation, collaborative production, and distribution infrastructures in sustaining narrative legitimacy. Indigenous Film as a Storytelling Practice.