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| Author | : Sherman Alexie |
| Publisher | : Miramax Books |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0786883928 |
| Pages | : 192 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (28 users) |
Download or read book Smoke Signals written by Sherman Alexie and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bittersweet comedy about two young Native-Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town for an adventure in self-discovery.
| Author | : Joanna Hearne |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Release Date | : 2012-12-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780803244627 |
| Pages | : 304 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (446 users) |
Download or read book Smoke Signals written by Joanna Hearne and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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’ appropriation of mainstream American popular culture forms to tell a Native story. Focusing in turn on the production and reception of the film and issues of performance, authenticity, social justice, and environmental history within the film’s text and context, this in-depth introduction and analysis expands our understanding and deepens our enjoyment of a Native cinema landmark.
| Author | : Jack Boozer |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Release Date | : 2009-06-03 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780292783157 |
| Pages | : 353 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (831 users) |
Download or read book Authorship in Film Adaptation written by Jack Boozer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central step in this transformation of a literary source to the screen is the writing of the screenplay. The screenplay usually serves to recruit producers, director, and actors; to attract capital investment; and to give focus to the conception and production of the film project. Often undergoing multiple revisions prior to production, the screenplay represents the crucial decisions of writer and director that will determine how and to what end the film will imitate or depart from its original source. Authorship in Film Adaptation is an accessible, provocative text that opens up new areas of discussion on the central process of adaptation surrounding the screenplay and screenwriter-director collaboration. In contrast to narrow binary comparisons of literary source text and film, the twelve essays in this collection also give attention to the underappreciated role of the screenplay and film pre-production that can signal the primary intention for a film. Divided into four parts, this collection looks first at the role of Hollywood's activist producers and major auteurs such as Hitchcock and Kubrick as they worked with screenwriters to formulate their audio-visual goals. The second part offers case studies of Devil in a Blue Dress and The Sweet Hereafter, for which the directors wrote their own adapted screenplays. Considering the variety of writer-director working relationships that are possible, Part III focuses on adaptations that alter genre, time, and place, and Part IV investigates adaptations that alter stories of romance, sexuality, and ethnicity.
| Author | : Peter Rollins |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Release Date | : 2011-01-23 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780813131658 |
| Pages | : 264 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (316 users) |
Download or read book Hollywood's Indian written by Peter Rollins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-01-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
| Author | : Benjamin D. Carson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2009-01-14 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781443803724 |
| Pages | : 190 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (37 users) |
Download or read book Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance written by Benjamin D. Carson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, broad in its scope, explores rich and multi-faceted literary works by and about Native Americans from the “long” early American period to the present. What links these essays is a concern for the ways in which Native Americans have navigated, negotiated, and resisted dominant white ideology since the founding of the Republic. Importantly, these essays are historically situated and consider not only the ways in which indigenous peoples are represented in American literature and history, but pay much needed attention to the actual lived experiences of Native Americans inside and outside of native communities. By addressing cross-cultural protest, resistance to dominant white ideology, the importance to Natives of land and land redress, sovereignty, separatism, and cultural healing, Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance contributes to our understanding of the discrepancy between ideological representations of native peoples and the real-life consequences those representations have for the ways in which indigenous peoples live out their daily lives.
| Author | : Matthew Basso |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2013-10-18 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781136689000 |
| Pages | : 318 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (89 users) |
Download or read book Across the Great Divide written by Matthew Basso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.
| Author | : Jennifer L. McMahon |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Release Date | : 2010-07-02 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780813173856 |
| Pages | : 352 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (738 users) |
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Western written by Jennifer L. McMahon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West render the genre popular yet lead it to offer a view of America’s history that is sometimes inaccurate. For many, the western embodies America and its values. In recent years, scholars had declared the western genre dead, but a steady resurgence of western themes in literature, film, and television has reestablished the genre as one of the most important. In The Philosophy of the Western, editors Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki examine philosophical themes in the western genre. Investigating subjects of nature, ethics, identity, gender, environmentalism, and animal rights, the essays draw from a wide range of westerns including the recent popular and critical successes Unforgiven (1992), All the Pretty Horses (2000), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as literature and television serials such as Deadwood. The Philosophy of the Western reveals the influence of the western on the American psyche, filling a void in the current scholarship of the genre.
| Author | : Jeff Berglund |
| Publisher | : University of Utah Press |
| Release Date | : 2011-10-31 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781607819745 |
| Pages | : 344 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (197 users) |
Download or read book Sherman Alexie written by Jeff Berglund and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays on the writing and films of American Indian author Sherman Alexie.
| Author | : Jennifer McClinton-Temple |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2010-05-12 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781438120874 |
| Pages | : 481 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (28 users) |
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature written by Jennifer McClinton-Temple and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indians have produced some of the most powerful and lyrical literature ever written in North America. Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature covers the field from the earliest recorded works to some of today's most exciting writers. Th
| Author | : Bruce Elliott Johansen |
| Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
| Release Date | : 2010 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780313355547 |
| Pages | : 315 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (555 users) |
Download or read book Native Americans Today written by Bruce Elliott Johansen and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2010 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the lives of one hundred influential Native Americans from the late-19th century up to the present, including politicians, artists, jounalists, lawyers, activists, writers, and religious leaders.
| Author | : Birgit Däwes |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2015-04-24 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781317507345 |
| Pages | : 269 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (73 users) |
Download or read book Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies written by Birgit Däwes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the "transnational turn." Global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, as well as issues of social justice have shaped and been shaped by discussions in Native American and Indigenous Studies. This volume brings together distinguished perspectives on these topics by the Native scholars and writers Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), and Tomson Highway (Cree), as well as non-Native authorities, such as Chadwick Allen, Hartmut Lutz, and Helmbrecht Breinig. Contributions look at various moments in the cultural history of Native North America—from earthmounds via the Catholic appropriation of a Mohawk saint to the debates about Makah whaling rights—as well as at a diverse spectrum of literary, performative, and visual works of art by John Ross, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, Emily Pauline Johnson, Leslie Marmon Silko, Emma Lee Warrior, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Stephen Graham Jones, and Gerald Vizenor, among others. In doing so, the selected contributions identify new and recurrent methodological challenges, outline future paths for scholarly inquiry, and explore the intersections between Indigenous Studies and contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies at large.
| Author | : Elizabeth DeLaney Hoffman |
| Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
| Release Date | : 2012 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780313379901 |
| Pages | : 390 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (799 users) |
Download or read book American Indians and Popular Culture: Media, sports, and politics written by Elizabeth DeLaney Hoffman and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2012 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americans are still fascinated by the romantic notion of the "noble savage," yet know little about the real Native peoples of North America. This two-volume work seeks to remedy that by examining stereotypes and celebrating the true cultures of American Indians today"--
| Author | : Dustin Tahmahkera |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Release Date | : 2014-10-30 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781469618692 |
| Pages | : 263 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (186 users) |
Download or read book Tribal Television written by Dustin Tahmahkera and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present. In this first comprehensive history of indigenous people in television sitcoms, Dustin Tahmahkera examines the way Native people have been represented in the genre. Analyzing dozens of television comedies from the United States and Canada, Tahmahkera questions assumptions that Native representations on TV are inherently stereotypical and escapist. From The Andy Griffith Show and F-Troop to The Brady Bunch, King of the Hill, and the Native-produced sitcom, Mixed Blessings, Tahmahkera argues that sitcoms not only represent Native people as objects of humor but also provide a forum for social and political commentary on indigenous-settler relations and competing visions of America. Considering indigenous people as actors, producers, and viewers of sitcoms as well as subjects of comedic portrayals, Tribal Television underscores the complexity of Indian representations, showing that sitcoms are critical contributors to the formation of contemporary indigenous identities and relationships between Native and non-Native people.
| Author | : Susan Lobo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2016-02-19 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781317346166 |
| Pages | : 542 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (461 users) |
Download or read book Native American Voices written by Susan Lobo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique reader presents a broad approach to the study of American Indians through the voices and viewpoints of the Native Peoples themselves. Multi-disciplinary and hemispheric in approach, it draws on ethnography, biography, journalism, art, and poetry to familiarize students with the historical and present day experiences of native peoples and nations throughout North and South America–all with a focus on themes and issues that are crucial within Indian Country today. For courses in Introduction to American Indians in departments of Native American Studies/American Indian Studies, Anthropology, American Studies, Sociology, History, Women's Studies.
| Author | : James H. Cox |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Release Date | : 2014-07-31 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780199914043 |
| Pages | : 704 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (14 users) |
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature written by James H. Cox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of the field. The Handbook's forty-three essays, organized into four sections, cover oral traditions, poetry, drama, non-fiction, fiction, and other forms of Indigenous American writing from the seventeenth through the twenty-first century. Part I attends to literary histories across a range of communities, providing, for example, analyses of Inuit, Chicana/o, Anishinaabe, and Métis literary practices. Part II draws on earlier disciplinary and historical contexts to focus on specific genres, as authors discuss Indigenous non-fiction, emergent trans-Indigenous autobiography, Mexicanoh and Spanish poetry, Native drama in the U.S. and Canada, and even a new Indigenous children's literature canon. The third section delves into contemporary modes of critical inquiry to expound on politics of place, comparative Indigenism, trans-Indigenism, Native rhetoric, and the power of Indigenous writing to communities of readers. A final section thoroughly explores the geographical breadth and expanded definition of Indigenous American through detailed accounts of literature from Indian Territory, the Red Atlantic, the far North, Yucatán, Amerika Samoa, and Francophone Quebec. Together, the volume is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Indigenous American literatures published to date. It is the first to fully take into account the last twenty years of recovery and scholarship, and the first to most significantly address the diverse range of texts, secondary archives, writing traditions, literary histories, geographic and political contexts, and critical discourses in the field.
| Author | : Daniel Grassian |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Release Date | : 2005 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1570035717 |
| Pages | : 230 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (17 users) |
Download or read book Understanding Sherman Alexie written by Daniel Grassian and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a chronological examination of the work of the Native American novelist, poet, filmmaker, and short story writer.
| Author | : M. Elise Marubbio |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Release Date | : 2013-01-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780813136653 |
| Pages | : 400 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (366 users) |
Download or read book Native Americans on Film written by M. Elise Marubbio and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the movies of Native American filmmakers and explores how they have used their works to leave behind the stereotypical Native American characters of old.
