LEADER 04669nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910455443603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-59450-8 010 $a9786612594502 010 $a90-420-2883-1 010 $a1-4416-1332-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789042028838 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764716 035 $a(EBL)556914 035 $a(OCoLC)659500225 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135922 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12010023 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135922 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10063992 035 $a(PQKB)11532490 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556914 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042028838 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556914 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380094 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL259450 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764716 100 $a20090424d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDecolonizing the lens of power$b[electronic resource] $eindigenous films in North America /$fKerstin Knopf 210 $aAmsterdam [Netherlands] ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (563 p.) 225 1 $aCross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ;$v100 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2543-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [359]-386) and index. 320 $aIncludes filmography (p. 380-384). 327 $aPreliminary Material -- The Foucauldian Lens of Power Decolonized -- A Postcolonial Approach to Indigenous Filmmaking in North America -- Oral Tradition as Reflected in Film -- Short Films -- Dramatic Films -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Internet Sources -- Appendix -- Index. 330 $aThis is the first book that comprehensively examines Indigenous filmmaking in North America, as it analyzes in detail a variety of representative films by Canadian and US-American Indigenous filmmakers: two films that contextualize the oral tradition, three short films, and four dramatic films. The book explores how members of colonized groups use the medium of film as a means for cultural and political expression and thus enter the dominant colonial film discourse and create an answering discourse. The theoretical framework is developed as an interdisciplinary approach, combining postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, and film studies. As Indigenous people are gradually taking control over the imagemaking process in the area of film and video, they cease being studied and described objects and become subjects who create self-controlled images of Indigenous cultures. The book explores the translatability of Indigenous oral tradition into film, touching upon the changes the cultural knowledge is subject to in this process, including statements of Indigenous filmmakers on this issue. It also asks whether or not there is a definite Indigenous film practice and whether filmmakers tend to dissociate their work from dominant classical filmmaking, adapt to it, or create new film forms and styles through converging classical film conventions and their conscious violation. This approach presupposes that Indigenous filmmakers are constantly in some state of reaction to Western ethnographic filmmaking and to classical narrative filmmaking and its epitome, the Hollywood narrative cinema. The films analyzed are The Road Allowance People by Maria Campbell, Itam Hakim, Hopiit by Victor Masayesva, Talker by Lloyd Martell, Tenacity and Smoke Signals by Chris Eyre, Overweight With Crooked Teeth and Honey Moccasin by Shelley Niro, Big Bear by Gil Cardinal, and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v100. 606 $aIndian motion pictures$zNorth America 606 $aEthnographic films$zNorth America 606 $aIndians in the motion picture industry$zNorth America 606 $aIndians in motion pictures 606 $aIndian mass media$zNorth America 606 $aIndigenous peoples and mass media$zNorth America 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndian motion pictures 615 0$aEthnographic films 615 0$aIndians in the motion picture industry 615 0$aIndians in motion pictures. 615 0$aIndian mass media 615 0$aIndigenous peoples and mass media 676 $a791.4308997 676 $a808.823 700 $aKnopf$b Kerstin$0931099 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455443603321 996 $aDecolonizing the lens of power$92094441 997 $aUNINA