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Hollywood's Indian : the portrayal of the Native American in film / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.
- Title
- Hollywood's Indian : the portrayal of the Native American in film / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.
- Publication
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2003.
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- Description
- xiv, 250 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals, the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life.
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- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Indians in motion pictures
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction. The study of Hollywood's Indian: still on a scholarly frontier? / Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor -- Absurd reality II: Hollywood goes to the Indians / Ted Jojola -- The white man's Indian: an institutional approach / John E. O'Connor -- The Indian of the north: Western traditions and Finnish Indians / Hannu Salmi -- Trapped in the history of film: The vanishing American / Michael J. Riley -- The representation of conquest: John Ford and the Hollywood Indian (1939-1964) / Ken Nolley -- Cultural confusion: Broken arrow / Frank Manchel -- The Hollywood Indian versus Native Americans: Tell them Willie Boy is here / James A. Sandos and Larry E. Burgess -- Native Americans in a revisionist Western: Little Big Man / Margo Kasdan and Susan Tavernetti -- Driving the red road: Powwow Highway / Eric Gary Anderson -- "Going Indian": Dances With Wolves / Robert Baird -- Deconstructing an American myth: The last of the Mohicans / Jeffrey Walker -- Playing Indian in the 1990s: Pocahontas and The Indian in the cupboard / Pauline Turner Strong -- This is what it means to say Smoke signals: Native American cultural sovereignty / Amanda J. Cobb -- Bibliography. Western films: the context for Hollywood's Indian.
- ISBN
- 0813190770
- 0813120446
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library