Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! (2003)

Several filmmakers discuss the introduction of Western modes of communication, especially film, to native cultures. While these tools can help a native people to document their own culture, it can also "swallow" their culture, encroaching upon and irreversibly altering it. The film takes its title from a book written by filmmaker Edmund Carpenter in 1972 about his engagement with media in Papua New Guinea.

Released Jan. 1, 2003 90 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.anthropology, tmdb.media-ecology, mdblist.one-actor

Production Companies: Media-Generation

Country: United States
Languages: English

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