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.

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Yes, you can access Native Americans on Film by M. Elise Marubbio, Eric L. Buffalohead, M. Elise Marubbio,Eric L. Buffalohead in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Film History & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Year

2013

ISBN

9780813136813

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Film History & Criticism

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
Section One
Introduction to Section One
Dimensions of Difference in Indigenous Film
Reading Nanook's Smile
Dismantling the Master's House
Indigenous (Re)memory and Resistance
Section Two
Introduction to Section Two
Native Resistance to Hollywood's Persistence of Vision
Geographies of Identity and Belonging in Sherman Alexie's The Business of Fancydancing
Teaching Native American Filmmakers
"The Native's Point of View" as Seen through the Native's (and Non-Native's) Points of View
The Dirt Roads of Consciousness
Section Three
Introduction to Section Three
"Pockets Full of Stories"
Wrestling the Greased Pig
An Upstream Journey
Video as Community Ally and Dakota Sense of Place
The Journey's Discovery
Acknowledgments
Selected Filmography
Contributors
Index