In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, and Chris Eyre have illustrated the importance of visual culture as a means to mediate identity in contemporary Native America. This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Native film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. Taking an...
In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, ...
"Seeing Red--Hollywood's Pixeled Skins" is a sterling anthology of critical reviews that interrogates and reexamines the ways in which American Indians have been portrayed in film. These reviews by prominent scholars of American Indian Studies are accessible, personal, intimate, oftentimes autobiographic, and foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous difference between the experience of native peoples and its depiction in film. "Seeing Red" draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing American Indians and indigenous peoples more clearly today.
"Seeing Red--Hollywood's Pixeled Skins" is a sterling anthology of critical reviews that interrogates and reexamines the ways in which American Indian...
