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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463573003321

Titolo

Seeing red [[electronic resource] ] : Hollywood's pixeled skins : American Indians and film / / edited by LeAnne Howe, Harvey Markowitz, and Denise K. Cummings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-62895-114-1

1-60917-368-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Collana

American Indian studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

CummingsDenise K

HoweLeAnne

MarkowitzHarvey

Disciplina

791.43/6552

Soggetti

Indians in motion pictures

Western films - United States - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The silent red man -- John Ford and "The Duke" on the warpath -- The Disney version -- Mixed bloods in distress -- You mean, I'm a white guy? -- Indians with fangs -- Walk a mile in my moccasins -- NDNS: the young and the restless -- Death wish, Indian style -- Love, indigenous-style -- Workin' for the great white father -- What the critics said--

Sommario/riassunto

At once informative, comic, and plaintive, Seeing Red-Hollywood's Pixeled Skins   is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which   American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George   B. Seitz's 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder's 2004 Black Cloud,   these 36 reviews by prominent scholars of American Indian Studies are   accessible, personal, intimate, and oftentimes autobiographic. Seeing Red-Hollywood's Pixeled Skins   offers indispensable perspectives from American Indian cultures to   foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous