Invisible natives : myth and identity in the American western /

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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 encoun...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prats, A. J., 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Indians in motion pictures.
Western films > History and criticism.
Peuples autochtones au cinéma.
Westerns > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Indians in motion pictures
Western films
Indianer > Motiv
Western > Film
Westernliteratur
Wild-westfilms.
Indianen.
Identiteit.
Mythevorming.
USA
Indianer <Motiv>
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "By all the truth of signs": the Indian in synecdoche
  • Prospects from the spaces of the same: the Indian, the land, and the "civilized eye"
  • "When the Apaches speak": revisionism's discursive dominance
  • "Chartered in two worlds": the double other
  • "Not enemies, not friends": racio-cultural ambivalence and mythology's ahistorical imperatives.

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