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Native Americans on film : conversations, teaching, and theory / edited by M. Elise Marubbio and Eric L. Buffalohead.

Marubbio, M. Elise, 1963- (Added Author). Buffalohead, Eric L., 1965- (Added Author).

Summary:

"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, Indigenous filmmakers have both challenged these representations and moved past them, offering their own distinct forms of cinematic expression. Native Americans on Film draws inspiration from the Indigenous film movement, bringing filmmakers into an intertextual conversation with academics from a variety of disciplines. The resulting dialogue opens a myriad of possibilities for engaging students with ongoing debates: What is Indigenous film? Who is an Indigenous filmmaker? What are Native filmmakers saying about Indigenous film and their own work? This thought-provoking text offers theoretical approaches to understanding Native cinema, includes pedagogical strategies for teaching particular films, and validates the different voices, approaches, and worldviews that emerge across the movement."--Publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 9780813136653 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0813136652 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: viii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: talking back, moving forward -- Theoretical conversations. 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 -- Pedagogical conversations. 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 -- Conversations with filmmakers. "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.