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Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western

Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western

Hearne, Joanna

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Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

Native American HistoryFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1438443986
ISBN13: 9781438443980
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2013
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.

In Native Recognition, Joanna Hearne persuasively argues for the central role of Indigenous image-making in the history of American cinema. Across the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries, Indigenous peoples have been involved in cinema as performers, directors, writers, consultants, crews, and audiences, yet both the specificity and range of this Native participation have often been obscured by the on-screen, larger-than-life images of Indians in the Western. Not only have Indigenous images mattered to the Western, but Westerns have also mattered to Indigenous filmmakers as they subvert mass culture images of supposedly vanishing Indians, repurposing the commodity forms of Hollywood films to envision Native intergenerational continuity. Through their interventions in forms of seeing and being seen in public culture, Native filmmakers have effectively marshaled the power of visual media to take part in national discussions of social justice and political sovereignty for North American Indigenous peoples.

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