Description
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 recognise both good filmmaking and the dangers of misrepresenting aboriginal peoples.
The anthology offers a method to historicise and contextualise 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.
About the Author
LeAnne Howe (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is Professor of American Indian Studies, English, and Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, USA. Howe has been an assistant professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Howe has received numerous awards, including the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry, the 2002 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and the 2003 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Award.
Denise K. Cummings is Associate Professor at Rollins College, USA where she teaches film history, theory, and criticism, critical media and cultural studies, and American and American Indian literature, culture, and film.
Harvey Markowitz is Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology, Washington and Lee University, USA. He has been Associate and Acting Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library. Markowitz has authored numerous books on American Indian history.
Book Information
ISBN 9781611860818
Author LeAnne Howe
Format Paperback
Page Count 180
Imprint Michigan State University Press
Publisher Michigan State University Press
Series American Indian Studies
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 recognise both good filmmaking and the dangers of misrepresenting aboriginal peoples.
The anthology offers a method to historicise and contextualise 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.
About the Author
LeAnne Howe (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is Professor of American Indian Studies, English, and Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, USA. Howe has been an assistant professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Howe has received numerous awards, including the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry, the 2002 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and the 2003 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Award.
Denise K. Cummings is Associate Professor at Rollins College, USA where she teaches film history, theory, and criticism, critical media and cultural studies, and American and American Indian literature, culture, and film.
Harvey Markowitz is Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology, Washington and Lee University, USA. He has been Associate and Acting Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library. Markowitz has authored numerous books on American Indian history.
Book Information
ISBN 9781611860818
Author LeAnne Howe
Format Paperback
Page Count 180
Imprint Michigan State University Press
Publisher Michigan State University Press
Series American Indian Studies
