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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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.