Seeing red : Hollywood's pixeled skins : American Indians and film

Seeing red : Hollywood's pixeled skins : American Indians and film / edited by LeAnne Howe, Harvey Markowitz, Denise K. Cummings.

At once informative, comic, and plaintive, this 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 prom...

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Other Authors: Howe, LeAnne (Editor), Markowitz, Harvey (Editor), Cummings, Denise K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]
Series:American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)
Subjects:
Indians in motion pictures.
Western films > United States > History and criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Indians in motion pictures
Western films
Indianer
Western > Film
Film
United States
USA
Los Angeles- Hollywood
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The silent red man
  • John Ford and "The Duke" on the warpath
  • The Disney version
  • Mixed bloods in distress
  • You mean, I'm a white guy?
  • Indians with fangs
  • Walk a mile in my moccasins
  • NDNS : the young and the restless
  • Death wish, Indian-style
  • Love, Indigenous-style
  • Workin' for the great white father
  • What the critics said.
  • Anthology of critical film reviews portraying American Indians: The vanishing American (1925) / by Jill Doerfler
  • Redskin (1929) / by Cristina Stanciu
  • Drums along the Mohawk (1939) / by Joseph Bauerkemper
  • Fort Apache (1948) / by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
  • She wore a yellow ribbon (1949) / by Gwen N. Westerman
  • The searchers (1956) / by Susan Stebbins
  • Peter Pan (1953) / by David Martínez
  • Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier (1955) / by Clifford E. Trafzer
  • Pocahontas (1995) / by Jeff Berglund
  • Duel in the sun (1946) / by Gary Harrington
  • The unforgiven (1960) / by LeAnne Howe
  • The last of the Mohicans (1992) / by Philip Deloria
  • Hidalgo (2004) / by Jim Wilson
  • Broken arrow (1950) / by Dean Rader
  • Little Big Man (1970) / by Rebecca Kugel
  • A man called horse (1970) / by Harvey Markowitz
  • Dances with wolves (1990) / by James Riding In
  • The Manitou (1978) / by Harvey Markowitz
  • Wolfen (1981) / by Carter Meland
  • Medicine River (1993) / by Jacki Rand
  • Smoke signals (1998) / by LeAnne Howe
  • The business of fancydancing (2002) / by Dean Rader
  • The Indian in the cupboard (1995) / by Pauline Turner Strong
  • The education of Little Tree (1997) / by Daniel Heath Justice
  • The Doe Boy (2001) / by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
  • Black Cloud (2004) / by Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
  • Navajo Joe (1966) / by Theo. Van Alst
  • Tell them Willie Boy is here (1969) / by Clifford E. Trafzer
  • Billy Jack (1971) / by Scott Richard Lyons
  • Waikiki wedding (1937) / by Jodi A. Byrd
  • The savage innocents (1960) / by Theo. Van Alst
  • Big Eden (2000) / by P. Jane Hafen
  • Distant drums (1951) / by Denise K. Cummings
  • The far horizons (1955) / by Frederick Hoxie
  • Thunderheart (1992) / by Paul M. Robertson
  • Windtalkers (2002) / Deborah Miranda.

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