American Indian Image Makers of Hollywood

American Indian Image Makers of Hollywood
Author: Frank Javier Garcia Berumen
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476678138

 Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans are seen. In many cases, they have been represented as violent, uncivilized, and an impediment to progress and civilization. This book analyzes the representation of Native Americans in cinematic images from the 1890s to the present day, deconstructing key films in each decade. This book also addresses efforts by Native Americans to improve and have a part in their filmic representations, including mini-biographies of important indigenous filmmakers and performers.

Native Americans on Film

Native Americans on Film
Author: M. Elise Marubbio
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0813136652

Looks at the movies of Native American filmmakers and explores how they have used their works to leave behind the stereotypical Native American characters of old.

Hollywood's Indian

Hollywood's Indian
Author: Peter Rollins
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2011-01-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0813131650

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.

Reservation Reelism

Reservation Reelism
Author: Michelle H. Raheja
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803268270

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 Indigenous plots and subplots also signify at least some degree of Native presence in a culture that largely defines Native peoples as absent or separate. Native actors, directors, and spectators have had a part in creating these cinematic representations and have thus complicated the dominant, and usually negative, messages about Native peoples that films portray. In Reservation Reelism Raheja examines the history of these Native actors, directors, and spectators, reveals their contributions, and attempts to create positive representations in film that reflect the complex and vibrant experiences of Native peoples and communities.

Picturing Indians

Picturing Indians
Author: Liza Black
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2022-12-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 149623264X

Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post–World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of “Indianness.”

Native Apparitions

Native Apparitions
Author: Steve Pavlik
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0816535477

"A timely and much-needed analysis and critique of Hollywood's representation of Native Americans in mainstream films"--Provided by publisher.

Notable Native People

Notable Native People
Author: Adrienne Keene
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1984857959

An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation An American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Young Adult Honor Book! Celebrate the lives, stories, and contributions of Indigenous artists, activists, scientists, athletes, and other changemakers in this beautifully illustrated collection. From luminaries of the past, like nineteenth-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis—the first Black and Native American female artist to achieve international fame—to contemporary figures like linguist jessie little doe baird, who revived the Wampanoag language, Notable Native People highlights the vital impact Indigenous dreamers and leaders have made on the world. This powerful and informative collection also offers accessible primers on important Indigenous issues, from the legacy of colonialism and cultural appropriation to food sovereignty, land and water rights, and more. An indispensable read for people of all backgrounds seeking to learn about Native American heritage, histories, and cultures, Notable Native People will educate and inspire readers of all ages.

Celluloid Indians

Celluloid Indians
Author: Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780803277908

An overview of Indian representation in Hollywood films. The author notes the change in tone for the better when--as a result of McCarthyism--filmmakers found themselves among the oppressed. By an Irish-Cherokee writer.

The White Man's Indian

The White Man's Indian
Author: Robert F. Berkhofer
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-08-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307761975

Columbus called them "Indians" because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an idealogical weapon in their subjugation. Now, in this brilliant and deeply disturbing reinterpretation of the American past, Robert Berkhofer has written an impressively documented account of the self-serving stereotypes Europeans and white Americans have concocted about the "Indian": Noble Savage or bloodthirsty redskin, he was deemed inferior in the light of western, Christian civilization and manipulated to its benefit. A thought-provoking and revelatory study of the absolute, seemingly ineradicable pervasiveness of white racism, The White Man's Indian is a truly important book which penetrates to the very heart of our understanding of ourselves. "A splendid inquiry into, and analysis of, the process whereby white adventurers and the white middle class fabricated the Indian to their own advantage. It deserves a wide and thoughtful readership." —Chronicle of Higher Education "A compelling and definitive history...of racist preconceptions in white behavior toward native Americans." —Leo Marx, The New York Times Book Review