Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film

Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film

Hollywood's misrepresentation of American Indians in feature-length narrative films has been the subject of much scholarly attention, beginning in the 1980s with John O'Connor's The Hollywood Indian: StereoVizenor types of Native Americans in Films (1980) and more recently with Jacque...

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Published in:American Indian quarterly Vol. 39; no. 2; p. 230
Main Author: Marsh, Dawn G
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 01-04-2015
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Actors
American Indians
Audiences
Documentary films
Film Study
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion pictures
Native North Americans
Singing
Stereotypes
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Summary:Hollywood's misrepresentation of American Indians in feature-length narrative films has been the subject of much scholarly attention, beginning in the 1980s with John O'Connor's The Hollywood Indian: StereoVizenor types of Native Americans in Films (1980) and more recently with Jacquelyn Kilpatricks Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film (1998), Beverly Singers Wiping the War Paint Off the Lens: Native American Film and Video (2001), and M. Elise Marubbio's Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film (2009), to name just a few. [...]Natives director, Valerie Red-horse, wants to educate the non-Native audience, not exclude them-teaching moments, if you will.
ISSN:0095-182X
1534-1828