ISBN:
0813326672
,
9780813326672
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0367315440
,
9780367315443
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 322 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
DDC:
305.897
Keywords:
Indians in popular culture
;
Indians in popular culture
;
United States
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
List of figures --Acknowledgments --Introduction: constructing the Indian, 1830s-1990s /S. Elizabeth Bird --The First but not the last of the "vanishing Indians": Edwin Forrest and mythic re-creations of the native population /Sally L. Jones --The Narratives of Sitting Bull's surrender: Bailey, Dix & Mead's photographic western /Frank Goodyear --Reduced to images: American Indians in nineteenth-century advertising /Jeffrey Steele --"Hudson's Bay Company Indians": images of native pople and the Red River pageant, 1920 /Peter Geller --Science and spectacle: Native American representation in early cinema /Alison Griffiths --"There is madness in the air": the 1926 Haskell homecoming and popular representations of sports in federal Indian boarding schools /John Bloom --Indigenous versus colonial discourse: alcohol and American Indian identity /Bonnie Duran --"My grandmother was a Cherokee princess": representations of Indians in Southern history /Joel W. Martin --Florida Seminoles and the marketing of the last frontier /Jay Mechling --Segregated stories: the colonial contours of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument /C. Richard King --A War of words: how news frames define legitimacy in a native conflict /Cynthia-Lou Coleman --Going Indian: discovery, adoption, and renaming toward a "true American" from Deerslayer to Dances with wolves /Robert Baird --"Her beautiful savage": the current sexual image of the Native American male /Peter van Lent --Cultural heritage in Northern exposure /Annette M. Taylor.
Abstract:
Not my fantasy: the persistence of Indian imagery in Dr. Quinn, medicine woman /S. Elizabeth Bird --Moo Mesa: some thoughts on stereotypes and image appropriation /Theodore S. Jojola --What does one look like? /Debra L. Merskin --Bibliography --About the book --About the contributors --Index.
Abstract:
"One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent Disney release Pocahontas by calling on parents to boycott the movie, citing its historical inaccuracies and saying that "Disney has let us down in a cruel, irresponsible manner." Their anger was rooted in the fact that, although Disney claimed that the film's portrayal of American Indians would be "authentic," the Pocahontas story their movie told was really white cultural myth. The actual histories of the characters were replaced by mythic narratives depicting the crucial moments when aid was given to the white settlers. As reconstructed, the story serves to reassert for whites their right to be here, easing any lingering guilt about the displacement of the native inhabitants." "To understand current imagery, it is essential to understand the history of its making, and these essays mesh to create a powerful, interconnected account of image creation over the past 150 years. The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines and specialties, reveal the distortions and fabrications white culture has imposed on significant historical and current events as represented by treasured artifacts such as photographic images taken of Sitting Bull following his surrender, the national monument at the battlefield of Little Bighorn, nineteenth-century advertising, the television phenomenon Northern Exposure, and the film Dances with Wolves."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
