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Sovereign Screens
While Indigenous media have gained increasing prominence around the world, the vibrant Aboriginal media world on the Canadian West Coast has received little scholarly attention. As the first ethnography of the Aboriginal media community in Vancouver,Sovereign Screensreveals the various social forces shaping Aboriginal media production including community media organizations and avant-garde art centers, as well as the national spaces of cultural policy and media institutions.
Kristin L. Dowell uses the concept of visual sovereignty to examine the practices, forms, and meanings through which Aboriginal filmmakers tell their individual stories and those of their Aboriginal nations and the intertribal urban communities in which they work. She explores the ongoing debates within the community about what constitutes Aboriginal media, how this work intervenes in the national Canadian mediascape, and how filmmakers use technology in a wide range of genres-including experimental media-to recuperate cultural traditions and reimagine Aboriginal kinship and sociality. Analyzing the interactive relations between this social community and the media forms it produces,Sovereign Screensoffers new insights into the on-screen and off-screen impacts of Aboriginal media.
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Settler Aesthetics
In Settler Aesthetics , an analysis of renowned director
Terrence Malick's 2005 film, The New World , Mishuana
Goeman examines the continuity of imperialist exceptionalism and
settler-colonial aesthetics. The story of Pocahontas has thrived
for centuries as a cover for settler-colonial erasure, destruction,
and violence against Native peoples, and Native women in
particular. Since the romanticized story of the encounter and
relationship between Pocahontas and Captain John Smith was first
published, it has imprinted a whitewashed historical memory into
the minds of Americans. As one of the most enduring tropes of
imperialist nostalgia in world history, Renaissance European
invasions of Indigenous lands by settlers trades in a falsified
\"civilizational discourse\" that has been a focus in literature for
centuries and in films since their inception. Ironically, Malick
himself was a symbol of the New Hollywood in his early career, but
with The New World he created a film that serves as a
buttress for racial capitalism in the Americas. Focusing on settler
structures, the setup of regimes of power, sexual violence and the
gendering of colonialism, and the sustainability of colonialism and
empires, Goeman masterfully peels away the visual layers of settler
logics in The New World , creating a language in Native
American and Indigenous studies for interpreting visual media.
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Reservation Reelism
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. InReservation ReelismRaheja 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.
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Decolonizing the Lens of Power
This is the first book that comprehensively examines Indigenous filmmaking in North America, as it analyzes in detail a variety of representative films by Canadian and US-American Indigenous filmmakers: two films that contextualize the oral tradition, three short films, and four dramatic films. The book explores how members of colonized groups use the medium of film as a means for cultural and political expression and thus enter the dominant colonial film discourse and create an answering discourse. The theoretical framework is developed as an interdisciplinary approach, combining postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, and film studies. As Indigenous people are gradually taking control over the imagemaking process in the area of film and video, they cease being studied and described objects and become subjects who create self-controlled images of Indigenous cultures. The book explores the translatability of Indigenous oral tradition into film, touching upon the changes the cultural knowledge is subject to in this process, including statements of Indigenous filmmakers on this issue. It also asks whether or not there is a definite Indigenous film practice and whether filmmakers tend to dissociate their work from dominant classical filmmaking, adapt to it, or create new film forms and styles through converging classical film conventions and their conscious violation. This approach presupposes that Indigenous filmmakers are constantly in some state of reaction to Western ethnographic filmmaking and to classical narrative filmmaking and its epitome, the Hollywood narrative cinema. The films analyzed are The Road Allowance People by Maria Campbell, Itam Hakim, Hopiit by Victor Masayesva, Talker by Lloyd Martell, Tenacity and Smoke Signals by Chris Eyre, Overweight With Crooked Teeth and Honey Moccasin by Shelley Niro, Big Bear by Gil Cardinal, and
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk.
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Native americans in the movies
Since the early days of the silent era, Native Americans have been captured on film, often in unflattering ways.Over the decades, some filmmakers have tried to portray the Native American on screen with more balanced interpretations--to varying degrees of success.
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