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 Jose Prats shows the ways in which film reflects cultural transformations in the course of America's historical encount...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prats, A. J., 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mythevorming.
Identiteit.
Indianen.
Wild-westfilms.
Westernliteratur
Western > Film
Indianer > Motiv
Western films.
Indians in motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Westerns > Histoire et critique.
Indiens d'Amerique au cinema.
Western films > History and criticism.
Indianer <Motiv>
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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