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Title

Decolonizing the lens of power : indigenous films in North America / Kerstin Knopf.

Author

Knopf, Kerstin

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008

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Description

xxiii, 494 p., [44] p. of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is the first book that comprehensively examines Indigenous filmmaking in North America, as it analyzes in detail a variety of representative films by Canadian and US-American Indigenous filmmakers: two films that contextualize the oral tradition, three short films, and four dramatic films. The book explores how members of colonized groups use the medium of film as a means for cultural and political expression and thus enter the dominant colonial film discourse and create an answering discourse. The theoretical framework is developed as an interdisciplinary approach, combining postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, and film studies. As Indigenous people are gradually taking control over the imagemaking process in the area of film and video, they cease being studied and described objects and become subjects who create self-controlled images of Indigenous cultures."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 100

Uniform Title

Cross/cultures 100.

Alternative Title

Indigenous films in North America

Subject

• Indian mass media
• Indigenous peoples and mass media
• Indian motion pictures
• Ethnographic films
• Indians in the motion picture industry
• Indians in motion pictures
• Indian motion pictures > North America
• Ethnographic films > North America
• Indians in the motion picture industry > North America
• Indian mass media > North America
• Indigenous peoples and mass media > North America

Genre/Form

• Ethnographic films
• Films ethnographiques.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-386) and index.
• Includes filmography (p. 380-384).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Foucauldian Lens of Power Decolonized -- A Postcolonial Approach to Indigenous Filmmaking in North America -- Oral Tradition as Reflected in Film -- Short Films -- Dramatic Films.

ISBN

• 9042025433
• 9789042025431

OCLC

• 319212402
• SCSB-12374817

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library