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Seeing red : Hollywood's pixeled skins : American Indians and film / edited by LeAnne Howe, Harvey Markowitz, and Denise K. Cummings.

Other author/creatorHowe, LeAnne.
Other author/creatorMarkowitz, Harvey.
Other author/creatorCummings, Denise K.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoEast Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxix, 225 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subject(s)
Series American Indian studies series
American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.) ^A772075
Contents Introduction -- The silent red man -- John Ford and "The Duke" on the warpath -- The Disney version -- Mixed bloods in distress -- You mean, I'm a white guy? -- Indians with fangs -- Walk a mile in my moccasins -- NDNS: the young and the restless -- Death wish, Indian style -- Love, indigenous-style -- Workin' for the great white father -- What the critics said.
Abstract "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."--Publisher's description.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Issued in other formOnline verison: Seeing red. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2013 1609173686
LCCN 2012028494
ISBN9781611860818 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1611860814 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40022088197

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