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Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals, the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life.

ISBN-13: 9780813190778

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Publication Date: 12-14-2003

Pages: 264

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Age Range: 18 Years

Peter C. Rollins is Regents Professor Emeritus of English and American Film Studies at Oklahoma State University and is former editor of the journal Film & History. He is the coeditor of numerous books, including Hollywood’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film. John E. O’Connor is professor emeritus of the Federated Department of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University. He is also a founding editor of Film & History and the coeditor of several books.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. The Study of Hollywood's Indian: Still on a Scholarly Frontier? 1
1. Absurd Reality II: Hollywood Goes to the Indians 12
2. The White Man's Indian: An Institutional Approach 27
3. The Indian of the North: Western Traditions and Finnish Indians 39
4. Trapped in the History of Film: The Vanishing American 58
5. The Representation of Conquest: John Ford and the Hollywood Indian (1939-1964) 73
6. Cultural Confusion: Broken Arrow 91
7. The Hollywood Indian versus Native Americans: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 107
8. Native Americans in a Revisionist Western: Little Big Man 121
9. Driving the Red Road: Powwow Highway 137
10. "Going Indian": Dances With Wolves 153
11. Deconstructing an American Myth: The Last of the Mohicans 170
12. Playing Indian in the 1990s: Pocahontas and The Indian in the Cupboard 187
13. This Is What It Means to Say Smoke Signals: Native American Cultural Sovereignty 206
Bibliography. Western Films: The Context for Hollywood's Indian 229
Contributors 234
Index 239