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Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals, the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life.
Peter C. Rollins is Regents Professor Emeritus of English and American Film Studies at Oklahoma State University and is former editor of the journal Film & History. He is the coeditor of numerous books, including Hollywood’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film.
John E. O’Connor is professor emeritus of the Federated Department of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University. He is also a founding editor of Film & History and the coeditor of several books.
Table of Contents
Foreword
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction. The Study of Hollywood's Indian: Still on a Scholarly Frontier?
1
1.
Absurd Reality II: Hollywood Goes to the Indians
12
2.
The White Man's Indian: An Institutional Approach
27
3.
The Indian of the North: Western Traditions and Finnish Indians
39
4.
Trapped in the History of Film: The Vanishing American
58
5.
The Representation of Conquest: John Ford and the Hollywood Indian (1939-1964)
73
6.
Cultural Confusion: Broken Arrow
91
7.
The Hollywood Indian versus Native Americans: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
107
8.
Native Americans in a Revisionist Western: Little Big Man
121
9.
Driving the Red Road: Powwow Highway
137
10.
"Going Indian": Dances With Wolves
153
11.
Deconstructing an American Myth: The Last of the Mohicans
170
12.
Playing Indian in the 1990s: Pocahontas and The Indian in the Cupboard
187
13.
This Is What It Means to Say Smoke Signals: Native American Cultural Sovereignty
206
Bibliography. Western Films: The Context for Hollywood's Indian
