Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Series Editors’ Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Introduction—“A Way to Sit at the Same Table”: Indigenizing Popular Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv 1. “Indians Watching Indians”: Speaking to and from Cinema History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. “The Storyteller Is Part of the Story”: Making Smoke Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3. “Dances with Salmon”: Reading Smoke Signals . . . . . . . . 76 4. “Take Your Dad’s Pickup”: Smoke Signals’s Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Conclusion—“Be a Crazy Horse of Filmmaking”: Smoke Signals and the Ongoing Production and Reception of Native Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Appendix—Remembering Smoke Signals: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie . . . . . . . . 167 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 YouTube Videography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 ...