Visualities : perspectives on contemporary American Indian film and art / edited by Denise K. Cummings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cummings, Denise K.

Series:

American Indian studies series.

American Indian studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian arts--United States.

Indian arts.

Arts and society--United States.

Arts and society.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Visual communication--United States.

Visual communication.

Indigenous films--United States.

Indigenous films.

Indians in motion pictures.

Indian motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Indian motion picture producers and directors.

Indian art--United States.

Indian art.

Indian artists--United States--Biography.

Indian artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Native film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. Taking

Contents:

Introduction: Indigenous visualities

pt. 1. Indigenous film practices

Visual prophecies : Imprint and It starts with a whisper / Michelle H. Raheja

Indians watching Indians on TV : Native dpectatorship and the politics of recognition in Skins and Smoke signals / Joanna Hearne

Sherman shoots Alexie : working with and without reservation(s) in The business of fancydancing / Theo. Van Alst

Elusive identities : representations of Native Latin America in the contemporary film industry / Rocío Quispe-Agnoli

Condolence tropes and Haudenosaunee visuality : It starts with a whisper (1993) and Mohawk girls (2005) / Penelope Myrtle Kelsey

Videographic sovereignty : Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie's Aboriginal world view / Joseph Bauerkemper

pt. 2. 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 Tsinhnahjinnie's photographic projects / Cynthia Fowler

Text-messaging prayers : George Longfish and his art of communication / Molly McGlennen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62895-146-X

1-60917-231-0

OCLC:

778436385