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Seeing red : Hollywood's pixeled skins : American Indians and film /

At once informative, comic, and plaintive, this is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George B. Seitz's 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder's 2004 Black Cloud, these 36 reviews by prom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Howe, LeAnne (Editor ), Markowitz, Harvey (Editor ), Cummings, Denise K. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]
Colección:American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:At once informative, comic, and plaintive, this is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George B. Seitz's 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder's 2004 Black Cloud, these 36 reviews by prominent scholars of American Indian Studies are accessible, personal, intimate, and oftentimes autobiographic. This book offers indispensable perspectives from American Indian cultures to foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous difference between the experiences of Native peoples and their depiction in film. By pointing out and poking fun at the dominant ideologies and perpetuation of stereotypes of Native Americans in Hollywood, the book gives readers the ability to recognize both good filmmaking and the dangers of misrepresenting aboriginal peoples. The anthology offers a method to historicize and contextualize cinematic representations spanning the blatantly racist, to the well-intentioned, to more recent independent productions. This work is a unique collaboration by scholars in American Indian Studies that draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing American Indians and Indigenous peoples more clearly in the twenty-first century. -- Publisher's description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 225 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781609173685
1609173686