Angela Aleiss

Hollywood's Native Americans (eBook, PDF)

Stories of Identity and Resistance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights the contributions and careers of Native Americans who have carved impressive careers in Hollywood, from the silent film era of the early 1900s to the present, becoming advocates for their heritage.

This book explores how the heritage and behind-the-scenes activities of Native American actors and filmmakers helped shape their own movie images. Native artists have impacted movies for more than a century, but until recently their presence had passed largely unrecognized. From the silent era to contemporary movies, this book features leading Native American actors whose voices have reached a broad audience and are part of the larger conversation about the exploitation of underrepresented people in Hollywood.

Each chapter highlights Native actors in lead or supporting roles as well as filmmakers whose movies were financed and distributed by Hollywood studios. The text further explores how a "pan-Indian heritage" that applies to all tribes in terms of spirituality, historical trauma, and a version of ceremony and storytelling have shaped these performers' movie identities. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including fans of Westerns, history buffs of American popular cinema, and students and scholars of Native American studies.

A note from the author: Since the publication of this book, the CBC news magazine "The Fifth Estate" released an investigative documentary on October 27, 2023, alleging that Buffy Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as a Native Canadian throughout her career.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440871573
• Artikelnr.: 68206734

Autorenporträt

Angela Aleiss is a contributing writer for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter. She is a former postdoctoral fellow at the American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Dr. Jan-Christopher Horak Acknowledgments xiii Introduction
Chapter 1Early Trailblazers Chapter 2Emerging Identities Chapter 3A
Foundation for Activism Chapter 4Building a Resistance Chapter 5
Hollywood's Invisible Artists Chapter 6Breaking the Mold Chapter 7
Reimagining Native Images Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index