Invisible Natives : Myth and Identity in the American Western /

This incisive, provocative, and wide-ranging book casts a critical eye on the representation of Native Americans in the Western film since the genre's beginnings. Armando José Prats shows the ways in which film reflects cultural transformations in the course of America's historical encount...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prats, Armando José (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Indians in motion pictures.
Western films > History and criticism.
Cultural Studies.
Film.
Native American Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Representation and Absence in Northwest Passage
  • Part I. Strategies of Figuration
  • 1. "By All the Truth of Signs": The Indian in Synecdoche
  • 2. Prospects from the Spaces of the Same: The Indian, the Land, and the "Civilized Eye"
  • 3. "When the Apaches Speak": Revisionism's Discursive Dominance
  • Part II. Typology, Identity, and the Uses of Indianness
  • 4. "Chartered in Two Worlds": The Double Other
  • 5. "Not Enemies, Not Friends": Racio-Cultural Ambivalence and Mythology's Ahistorical Imperatives
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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