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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marubbio, M. Elise, 1963-

Buffalohead, Eric L., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians in motion pictures.

Indians in the motion picture industry--United States.

Indians in the motion picture industry.

Indigenous films--United States.

Indigenous films.

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

Indian motion picture producers and directors.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Talking back, moving forward

Section one. Theoretical conversations: Introduction to section one

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.

Section two. Pedagogical conversations: Introduction to section two

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.

Section three. Conversations with filmmakers: Introduction to section three

"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.

Acknowledgments

Selected filmography

List of contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

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ISBN:

9780813136813

0813136814

OCLC:

830003941