Imagic moments : Indigenous North American film / Lee Schweninger.

In Indigenous North American film, Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions, including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood. Author Lee Schweninger examines films in which the major inspiration, the source material, and the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Schweninger, Lee (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: where to concentrate
  • He was still the chief: Masayesva's imagining Indians
  • Into the city: ordered freedom in The exiles
  • The native presence in film: House made of dawn
  • A concordance of narrative voices: Harold, trickster, and Harold of Orange
  • I don't do portraits: Medicine River and the art of photography
  • Keep your pony out of my garden: Powwow highway and "being Cheyenne"
  • Feeling extra magical: the art of disappearing in Smoke signals
  • Making his own music: death and life in The business of fancydancing
  • Sharing the kitchen: Naturally Native and women in American Indian film
  • In the form of a spider: the interplay of narrative fiction and documentary in Skins
  • The stories pour out: taking control in The doe boy
  • Telling our own stories: seeking identity in Tkaronto
  • People come around in circles: Harjo's Four sheets to the wind
  • Epilogue: Barking water and beyond.