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'Injus!' - Native Americans in the Movies (Paperback)
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'Injus!' - Native Americans in the Movies (Paperback)
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The indispensable sage, fierce enemy, silent sidekick: the role of
Native Americans in film has been largely confined to identities
defined by the "white" perspective. Many studies have analyzed
these simplistic stereotypes of Native American cultures in film,
but few have looked beyond the Hollywood Western for further
examples. Distinguished film scholar Edward Buscombe offers here an
incisive study that examines cinematic depictions of Native
Americans from a global perspective.
Buscombe opens with a historical survey of American Westerns and
their controversial portrayals of Native Americans: the wild redmen
of nineteenth-century Wild West shows, the more sympathetic
depictions of Native Americans in early Westerns, and the shift in
the American film industry in the 1920s to hostile
characterizations of Indians. Questioning the implicit assumptions
of prevailing critiques, Buscombe looks abroad to reveal a
distinctly different portrait of Native Americans. He focuses on
the lesser known Westerns made in Germany--such as East Germany's
"Indianerfilme," in which Native Americans were Third World freedom
fighters battling against Yankee imperialists--as well as the films
based on the novels of nineteenth-century German writer Karl May.
These alternative portrayals of Native Americans offer a vastly
different view of their cultural position in American society.
Buscombe offers nothing less than a wholly original and readable
account of the cultural images of Native Americans through history
andaround the globe, revealing new and complex issues in our
understanding of how oppressed peoples have been represented in
mass culture.
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