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Navajo Talking Picture: Cinema on Native Ground

Navajo Talking Picture: Cinema on Native Ground

Lewis, Randolph

Paperback

Series: Indigenous Films

Native American HistoryFilm Studies

ISBN10: 080323841X
ISBN13: 9780803238411
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jul 1 2012
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
Navajo Talking Picture, released in 1985, is one of the earliest and most controversial works of Native cinema. It is a documentary by Los Angeles filmmaker Arlene Bowman, who travels to the Navajo reservation to record the traditional ways of her grandmother in order to understand her own cultural heritage. For reasons that have often confused viewers, the filmmaker persists despite her traditional grandmother's forceful objections to the apparent invasion of her privacy. What emerges is a strange and thought-provoking work that abruptly calls into question the issue of insider versus outsider and other assumptions that have obscured the complexities of Native art.

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