Visualities [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives on contemporary American Indian film and art / / edited by Denise K. Cummings

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779079803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-62895-146-X; 1-60917-231-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Collana: American Indian studies series
• Altri autori (Persone): CummingsDenise K
• Disciplina: 700.89/97009051
• Soggetti: Indian arts - United States; Arts and society - United States; Indians of North America - Intellectual life; Indians of North America - Ethnic identity; Visual communication - United States; Indigenous films - United States; Indians in motion pictures; Indian motion picture producers and directors - United States; Indian art - United States; Indian artists - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Indigenous visualities -- pt. 1. Indigenous film practices -- Visual prophecies : Imprint and It starts with a whisper / Michelle H. Raheja -- Indians watching Indians on TV : Native dpectatorship and the politics of recognition in Skins and Smoke signals / Joanna Hearne -- Sherman shoots Alexie : working with and without reservation(s) in The business of fancydancing / Theo. Van Alst -- Elusive identities : representations of Native Latin America in the contemporary film industry / Rocío Quispe-Agnoli -- Condolence tropes and Haudenosaunee visuality : It starts with a whisper (1993) and Mohawk girls (2005) / Penelope Myrtle Kelsey -- Videographic sovereignty : Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie's Aboriginal world view / Joseph Bauerkemper -- pt. 2. Contemporary American Indian art -- Indigenous semiotics ; and shared modernity / Dean Rader -- Seeing memory, storying memory : Printup Hope, Rickard, Gansworth / Susan Bernardin -- Aboriginal beauty and self-determination : Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie's photographic projects / Cynthia Fowler -- Text-messaging prayers : George Longfish and his art of communication / Molly McGlennen.
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, and Chris Eyre have illustrated the importance of visual culture as a means to mediate identity in contemporary Native America. This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Native film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. Taking