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Native Americans on Film : Conversations, Teaching, and Theory /

The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years, I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Buffalohead, Eric L., 1965- (Editor ), Marubbio, M. Elise, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Talking back, moving forward
  • Dection one. Theoretical conversations: Introduction to section one
  • Dimensions of difference in indigenous film / Houston Wood
  • Reading Nanook's smile : visual sovereignty, indigenous revisions of ethnography, and Atanarjuat, the fast runner / Michelle H. Raheja
  • Dismantling the master's house : the feminist fourth cinema documentaries of Alanis Obomsawin and Loretta Todd / Jennifer L. Gauthier
  • Indigenous (re)memory and resistance : video works by Dana Claxton / Carla Taunton.
  • Section two. Pedagogical conversations: Introduction to section two
  • Native resistance to Hollywood's persistence of vision : teaching films about contemporary American Indians / Carole Gerster
  • Geographies of identity and belonging in Sherman Alexie's The business of fancydancing / Amy Corbin
  • Teaching Native American filmmakers : Osawa, Eyre, and Redroad / Angelica Lawson
  • "The native's point of view" as seen through the native's (and non-native's) points of view / Sam Pack
  • The dirt roads of consciousness : teaching and producing videos with an indigenous purpose / Beverly Singer.
  • Section three. Conversations with filmmakers: Introduction to section three
  • "Pockets full of stories" : an interview with Sterlin Harjo and Blackhorse Lowe / Joanna Hearne and Zack Shlachter
  • Wrestling the greased pig : an interview with Randy Redroad / M. Elise Marubbio
  • An upstream journey : an interview with Sandra Osawa / Saza Osawa
  • Video as community ally and Dakota sense of place : an interview with Mona Smith / Jennifer A. Machoirlatti
  • The journey's discovery : an interview with Shelley Niro / Elizabeth Weatherford.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Selected filmography
  • List of contributors
  • Index.