Liza Black

Picturing Indians

Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of postâ World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of â Indianness.â

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781496232649
• ISBN-10: 149623264X
• Artikelnr.: 62998613

Autorenporträt

¿Liza Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles and an associate professor of history and Native American and Indigenous studies at Indiana University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “Just Like a Snake You’ll Be Crawling in Your Own Shit”: American
Indians and White Narcissism
2. “Indians Agree to Perform and Act as Directed”: Urban Indian (and
Non-Indian) Actors
3. “Not Desired by You for Photographing”: The Labor of American Indian
(and Non-Indian) Extras
4. “White May Be More Than Skin Deep”: Whites in Redface
5. “A Bit Thick”: The Transformation of Indians into Movie Indians
6. “Dig Up a Good Indian Historian”: The Search for Authenticity
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index