Joanna Hearne

Smoke Signals (eBook, PDF)

Native Cinema Rising

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Smoke Signals is a historical milestone in Native American filmmaking. Released in 1998 and based on a short-story collection by Sherman Alexie, it was the first wide-release feature film written, directed, coproduced, and acted by Native Americans. The most popular Native American film of all time, Smoke Signals is also an innovative work of cinematic storytelling that demands sustained critical attention in its own right. Embedded in Smoke Signals's universal story of familial loss and renewal are uniquely Indigenous perspectives about political sovereignty, Hollywood's long history of misrepresentation, and the rise of Indigenous cinema across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Joanna Hearne's work foregrounds the voices of the filmmakers and performers¿in interviews with Alexie and director Chris Eyre, among others¿to explore the film's audiovisual and narrative strategies for speaking to multiple audiences. In particular, Hearne examines the filmmakers'...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803244627
• Artikelnr.: 43100837

Autorenporträt

Joanna Hearne is an associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia and is the author of Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western. Her articles have appeared in Screen, Western Folklore, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Series Editors' Introduction
Introduction: "A Way to Sit at the Same Table": Indigenizing Popular
Culture
1. "Indians Watching Indians": Speaking to and from Cinema History
2. "The Storyteller Is Part of the Story": Making Smoke Signals
3. "Dances with Salmon": Reading Smoke Signals
4. "Take Your Dad's Pickup": Smoke Signals's Reception
Conclusion: "Be a Crazy Horse of Filmmaking": Smoke Signals and the Ongoing
Production and Reception of Native Cinema
Appendix: Remembering Smoke Signals: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman
Alexie
Notes
Bibliography
YouTube Videography
Index