Representing Others

White Views of Indigenous Peoples
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-85989-354-1
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 163 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 242 g

Representing Others examines a diverse range of cultural forms in which white novelists, sculptors, diarists, photographers, ethnographers, travel writers and filmmakers have depicted Native American, African, Pacific and Australian Aboriginal peoples. As they were seen by incoming whites who were themselves strangers to the land, they most often appeared incomprehensible, threatening, 'Other'.

The analyses in this book go beyond simply asking questions about the 'accuracy' or otherwise of a work's representation of the culture under discussion. Although the seven authors conform to no single position and adopt a variety of critical approaches, they share a common concern. These essays all propose that if we are to use our own terms to speak of another culture, we must become aware of the problems involved in the act of representation itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gidley, Mick

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fothergill, Anthony

Gidley, Mick

Maltby, Richard, Prof.

Quartermaine, Peter

Smiles, Stephanie

Tamplin, Ronald

Youngs, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: A native American in stone, Stephanie Smiles; the medical officer's diary, Tim Youngs; representing others, of Conrad, cannibals and kin, Anthony Fothergill; noble men and noble savages, Ron Tamplin; Johannes Lintd - photographer of Australia and New Guinea, Peter Quartermaine; Edward S. Curtis' Indian photographs - a national enterprise, Mick Gidley; John Ford and the Indians, or, Tom Doniphon's history lesson, Richard Maltby.

Über Autor(innen)

Maltby, Richard, Prof.
Richard Maltby is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies at Flinders University, South Australia. He moved to Flinders from the UK, where he established the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter, before becoming Research Professor in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.

His publications include Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (Routledge, 2011), Hollywood Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell), Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century (Harrap).  ‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film America’: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1925-1939, co-edited with Andrew Higson (UEP 1999), was winner of the prestigious Prix Jean Mitry for cinema history in 2000.

He is a Series Editor of Exeter Studies in Film History.

Mick Gidley is Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds