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- Seeing Red—Hollywood's Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: American Indian Studies
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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 indispensible perspectives from American Indian cultures to foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous difference between the experiences of Native peoples and their depiction in film. By pointing out and poking fun at the dominant ideologies and perpetuation of stereotypes of Native Americans in Hollywood, the book gives readers the ability to recognize both good filmmaking and the dangers of misrepresenting aboriginal peoples. The anthology offers a method to historicize and contextualize cinematic representations spanning the blatantly racist, to the well-intentioned, to more recent independent productions. Seeing Red is a unique collaboration by scholars in American Indian Studies that draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing American Indians and indigenous peoples more clearly in the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Introduction
- pp. vii-xix
- Chapter 1: The Silent Red Man
- pp. 1-11
- Redskin (1929)
- pp. 7-11
- Drums along the Mohawk (1939)
- pp. 15-21
- Fort Apache (1948)
- pp. 22-24
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- pp. 25-29
- The Searchers (1956)
- pp. 30-36
- Chapter 3: The Disney Version
- pp. 37-53
- Peter Pan (1953)
- pp. 39-43
- Pocahontas (1995)
- pp. 49-53
- Chapter 4: Mixed-Bloods in Distress
- pp. 55-72
- Duel in the Sun (1946)
- pp. 57-60
- The Unforgiven (1960)
- pp. 61-64
- The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
- pp. 65-68
- Hidalgo (2004)
- pp. 69-72
- Broken Arrow (1950)
- pp. 75-78
- Little Big Man (1970)
- pp. 79-82
- A Man Called Horse (1970)
- pp. 83-88
- Dances with Wolves (1990)
- pp. 89-95
- Chapter 6: Indians with Fangs
- pp. 97-108
- The Manitou (1978)
- pp. 99-103
- Wolfen (1981)
- pp. 104-108
- Chapter 7: Walk a Mile in My Moccasins
- pp. 109-120
- Medicine River (1993)
- pp. 111-112
- Smoke Signals (1998)
- pp. 113-115
- The Business of Fancydancing (2002)
- pp. 116-120
- Chapter 8: NDNS: The Young and the Restless
- pp. 121-144
- The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
- pp. 123-126
- The Education of Little Tree (1997)
- pp. 127-132
- The Doe Boy (2001)
- pp. 133-138
- Black Cloud (2004)
- pp. 139-144
- Chapter 9: Death Wish, Indian-Style
- pp. 145-163
- Navajo Joe (1966)
- pp. 147-153
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
- pp. 154-157
- Billy Jack (1971)
- pp. 158-163
- Chapter 10: Love, Indigenous-Style
- pp. 165-181
- Waikiki Wedding (1937)
- pp. 167-171
- The Savage Innocents (1960)
- pp. 172-178
- Big Eden (2000)
- pp. 179-181
- Distant Drums (1951)
- pp. 185-188
- The Far Horizons (1955)
- pp. 189-192
- Thunderheart (1992)
- pp. 193-196
- Windtalkers (2002)
- pp. 197-200
- What the Critics Said . . .
- pp. 201-214
- Ratings Sheet
- pp. 215-216
- Further Reading
- pp. 217-218
- Contributors
- pp. 219-224
- Roll Credits
- pp. 225-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609173685
Related ISBN(s)
9781611860818, 9781628951141, 9781628961140
MARC Record
OCLC
864855352
Pages
245
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013