Reservation Reelism : Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film
In this deeply engaging account, Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provide...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2011
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| Summary: | In this deeply engaging account, Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native audiences. These films have been highly influential in shaping perceptions of Indigenous peoples as, for example, a dying race or as inherently unable or unwilling to adapt to change. However, films with Ind |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0803234457 9780803234451 |