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Visualities : perspectives on contemporary American Indian film and art /

In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, and Chris Eyre have illustrated the importance of visual culture as a means to mediate identity in contemporary Native America. This insightful collec...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Cummings, Denise K. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2011.
Series:American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Indigenous Visualities""; ""Part One: Indigenous Film Practices""; ""Visual Prophecies: Imprint and It Starts with a Whisper
  • Michelle H. Raheja ""; ""Indians Watching Indians on TV: Native Spectatorship and the Politics of Recognition in Skins and Smoke Signals
  • Joanna Hearne ""; ""Sherman Shoots Alexie: Working with and without Reservation(s) inThe Business of Fancydancing
  • Theo. Van Alst ""; ""Elusive Identities: Representations of Native Latin America in the Contemporary Film Industry
  • RocÃo Quispe-Agnoli ""
  • ""Condolence Tropes and Haudenosaunee Visuality: It Starts with a Whisper and Mohawk Girls
  • Penelope Myrtle Kelsey """"Videographic Sovereignty: Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnieâ€?s Aboriginal World View
  • Joseph Bauerkemper ""; ""Part Two: Contemporary American Indian Art ""; ""Indigenous Semiotics and Shared Modernity
  • Dean Rader ""; ""Seeing Memory, Storying Memory: Printup Hope, Rickard, Gansworth
  • Susan Bernardin""; ""Aboriginal Beauty and Self-Determination: Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnieâ€?s Photographic Projects
  • Cynthia Fowler ""
  • ""Text-Messaging Prayers: George Longfish and His Art of Communication
  • Molly McGlennen """"Contributors""; ""Index""