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Native recognition : Indigenous cinema and the western /

This book argues for the central role of Indigenous image-making in the history of American cinema. Across the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries, Indigenous peoples have been involved in cinema as performers, directors, writers, consultants, crews, and audiences, yet both the specificity...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hearne, Joanna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : SUNY Press, ©2012.
Series:SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reframing the western imaginary: James Young Deer, Lillian St. Cyr, and the "squaw man" Indian dramas
  • "Strictly American cinemas": social protest in The vanishing American, Redskin, and Ramona
  • "As if I were lost and finally found": repatriation and visual continuity in Imagining Indians and The return of Navajo boy
  • Imagining the reservation in House made of dawn and Billy Jack
  • "Indians watching Indians on TV": native spectatorship and the politics of recognition in Skins and Smoke signals.