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Picturing indians : native Americans in film, 1941-1960
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Black, Liza
- Publisher
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
- Call Number
- 07.2 B57p
- Author
- Black, Liza
- Publisher
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xxi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Film making
- History
- Colonialism
- Abstract
- Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post-World War II American films and production studios, which cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face-to-face with mainstream representations of "Indianness." -- From by publisher
- Contents
- "Just Like a Snake You'll Be Crawling in Your Own Shit": American Indians and White Narcissism ; "Indians Agree to Perform and Act as Directed": Urban Indian (and Non-Indian) Actors ; "Not Desired by You for Photographing": The Labor of American Indian (and Non-Indian) Extras ; "White May Be More Than Skin Deep": Whites in Redface ; "A Bit Thick": The Transformation of Indians into Movie Indians ; "Dig Up a Good Indian Historian": The Search for Authenticity
- ISBN
- 9780803296800
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 07.2 B57p
- Collection
- Archives Library
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