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Decolonizing the lens of power : indigenous films in North America / / Kerstin Knopf



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Autore: Knopf Kerstin Visualizza persona
Titolo: Decolonizing the lens of power : indigenous films in North America / / Kerstin Knopf Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (563 p.)
Disciplina: 791.4308997
808.823
Soggetto topico: Indian motion pictures - North America
Ethnographic films - North America
Indians in the motion picture industry - North America
Indians in motion pictures
Indian mass media - North America
Indigenous peoples and mass media - North America
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-386) and index.
Includes filmography (p. 380-384).
Nota di contenuto: Preliminary 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Indigenous films in North America
Titolo autorizzato: Decolonizing the lens of power  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-59450-8
9786612594502
90-420-2883-1
1-4416-1332-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823434003321
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Serie: Cross/cultures ; ; 100.