Hearne Native Recognition

Indigenous Cinema and the Western
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4399-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hearne, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Before-and-After: Vanishing and Visibility in Native American Images

Part I: Indigenous Presence in the Silent Western

1. Reframing the Western Imaginary: James Young Deer, Lillian St. Cyr, and the “Squaw Man” Indian Dramas

2. “Strictly American Cinemas”: Social Protest in The Vanishing American, Redskin, and Ramona

Part II: Documenting Midcentury Images

3. “As If I Were Lost and Finally Found”: Repatriation and Visual Continuity in Imagining Indians and The Return of Navajo Boy

Part III: Independent Native Features

4. Imagining the Reservation in House Made of Dawn and Billy Jack

5. “Indians Watching Indians on TV”: Native Spectatorship and the Politics of Recognition in Skins and Smoke Signals

Coda
Persistence Vision
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna Hearne is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising.