ISBN:
9780313379901
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (809 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version American Indians and Popular Culture
DDC:
305.897
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Americans are still fascinated by the romantic notion of the "noble savage," yet know little about the real Native peoples of North America. This two-volume work seeks to remedy that by examining stereotypes and celebrating the true cultures of American Indians today
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Volume 1: Media, Sports, and Politics; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Portrayals of American Indians in Early Radio; 2. American Indians in Silent Film, 1894-1929; 3. Writing Indian Stereotypes: The Role of the Screenplay in American Westerns; 4. Elvis as Indian in Film and Life; 5. Cries with Indians: "Going Indian" with the Ecological Indian from Rousseau to Avatar; 6. American Indian Feature Filmmakers and Popular Culture; 7. "It's a Good Day to Be Indigenous": Sherman Alexie's Films; 8. Boarding and Residential School Experiences in Film
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Ubiquitous American Indian Stereotypes in Television10. American Indians in Print Advertising since 1890; 11. The Continuing Hunt for Willie Boy, 1909-2009; 12. Jackpot! Marketing the American Indian Casino; 13. How Kennewick Man and Media Constructs Frame Indian Identity; 14. Will Electronic Media Be the Death or Rebirth of Endangered American Indian Languages?; 15. Native People in American Mythology and Popular Culture; 16. American Indian Sports: A Historical Overview; 17. How Boarding School Basketball Became Indian Basketball
Description / Table of Contents:
18. American Indian Imagery in Sport and the Public Imagination19. Sacagawea: Super Hero, Super Woman, Super Myth; 20. Mardi Gras Indians: Spiritualism or Indian Stereotype?; 21. Indians in the Military; 22. The American Indian Movement in Popular Culture; 23. Seneca Resistance: Surviving the Kinzua Dam; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; About the Editor and Contributors; Volume 2: Literature, Arts, and Resistance; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Anticipating the Renaissance: Cogewea and Trends in Modern American Indian Literature
Description / Table of Contents:
2. Leslie Marmon Silko: Mapping Radical Histories and Futures3. Windigo Cars and High-Stakes Gambling in the Novels of Louise Erdrich; 4. Sherman Alexie and Popular Culture: Magic in the Mix; 5. The Curious Case of Asa Carter and The Education of Little Tree; 6. The "Savage" Sublime in Novels by A. A. Carr and Joseph Boyden; 7. Twilight: A Worldwide Pop Phenomenon with a Quileute Slant; 8. Alaska Native Writers and the Power of Stories; 9. MacGyvering Pop Culture: Blending Traditions in Canada; 10. "This is the world without end": American Indian Poetry from 1980-2010
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Writing the Rez: Popular Obsessions in the Works of Eric Gansworth12. Art, Authenticity, and Identity at Santa Fe Indian Market; 13. Leap of Faith: Contemporary American Indian Art and American Visual Culture; 14. Indigenous Architecture; 15. American Indians in Post-World War II Popular Music; 16. Rez Riddims: Reggae and American Indians; 17. Notions of Indianness and Contemporary Native Dance; 18. Powwows; 19. Powwow Dance; 20. Adaptation as Tradition: Southwestern Indians and Pop Culture; 21. Living in Vitrines: Museum Treatments of American Indians
Description / Table of Contents:
22. Where Are the Blankets? Where Is the Pottery? The Institute of American Indian Arts Nears Fifty
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Volume 1: Media, Sports, and Politics; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Portrayals of American Indians in Early Radio; 2. American Indians in Silent Film, 1894-1929; 3. Writing Indian Stereotypes: The Role of the Screenplay in American Westerns; 4. Elvis as Indian in Film and Life; 5. Cries with Indians: "Going Indian" with the Ecological Indian from Rousseau to Avatar; 6. American Indian Feature Filmmakers and Popular Culture; 7. "It's a Good Day to Be Indigenous": Sherman Alexie's Films; 8. Boarding and Residential School Experiences in Film; 9. Ubiquitous American Indian Stereotypes in Television10. American Indians in Print Advertising since 1890; 11. The Continuing Hunt for Willie Boy, 1909-2009; 12. Jackpot! Marketing the American Indian Casino; 13. How Kennewick Man and Media Constructs Frame Indian Identity; 14. Will Electronic Media Be the Death or Rebirth of Endangered American Indian Languages?; 15. Native People in American Mythology and Popular Culture; 16. American Indian Sports: A Historical Overview; 17. How Boarding School Basketball Became Indian Basketball; 18. American Indian Imagery in Sport and the Public Imagination19. Sacagawea: Super Hero, Super Woman, Super Myth; 20. Mardi Gras Indians: Spiritualism or Indian Stereotype?; 21. Indians in the Military; 22. The American Indian Movement in Popular Culture; 23. Seneca Resistance: Surviving the Kinzua Dam; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; About the Editor and Contributors; Volume 2: Literature, Arts, and Resistance; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Anticipating the Renaissance: Cogewea and Trends in Modern American Indian Literature ...
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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