Full Description
At once informative, comic, and plaintive, Seeing Red—Hollywood's Pixeled Skins is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George B. Seitz's 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder's 2004 Black Cloud, these 36 reviews by prominent scholars of American Indian Studies are accessible, personal, intimate, and oftentimes autobiographic. Seeing Red—Hollywood's Pixeled Skins offers indispensible perspectives from American Indian cultures to foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous difference between the experiences of Native peoples and their depiction in film. By pointing out and poking fun at the dominant ideologies and perpetuation of stereotypes of Native Americans in Hollywood, the book gives readers the ability to recognize both good filmmaking and the dangers of misrepresenting aboriginal peoples. The anthology offers a method to historicize and contextualize cinematic representations spanning the blatantly racist, to the well-intentioned, to more recent independent productions. Seeing Red is a unique collaboration by scholars in American Indian Studies that draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing American Indians and indigenous peoples more clearly in the twenty-first century.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
1. The Silent Red Man
The Vanishing American (1925), by Jill Doerfler
Redskin (1929), by Cristina Stanciu
2. John Ford and "The Duke" on the Warpath
Drums along the Mohawk (1939), by Joseph Bauerkemper
Fort Apache (1948), by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), by Gwen N. Westerman
The Searchers (1956), by Susan Stebbins
3. The Disney Version
Peter Pan (1953), by David Martínez
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955), by Clifford E. Trafzer
Pocahontas (1995), by Jeff Berglund
4. Mixed-Bloods in Distress
Duel in the Sun (1946), by Gary Harrington
The Unforgiven (1960), by LeAnne Howe
The Last of the Mohicans (1992), by Philip J. Deloria
Hidalgo (2004), by Jim Wilson
5. You Mean, I'm a White Guy?
Broken Arrow (1950), by Dean Rader
Little Big Man (1970), by Rebecca Kugel
A Man Called Horse (1970), by Harvey Markowitz
Dances with Wolves (1990), by James Riding In
6. Indians with Fangs
The Manitou (1978), by Harvey Markowitz
Wolfen (1981), by Carter Meland
7. Walk a Mile in My Moccasins
Medicine River (1993), by Jacki Rand
Smoke Signals (1998), by LeAnne Howe
The Business of Fancydancing (2002), by Dean Rader
8. NDNS: The Young and the Restless
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), by Pauline Turner Strong
The Education of Little Tree (1997), by Daniel Heath Justice
The Doe Boy (2001), by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Black Cloud (2004), by Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
9. Death Wish, Indian-Style
Navajo Joe (1966), by Theo. Van Alst
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), Clifford E. Trafzer
Billy Jack (1971), by Scott Richard Lyons
10. Love, Indigenous-Style
Waikiki Wedding (1937), by Jodi A. Byrd
The Savage Innocents (1960), by Theo. Van Alst
Big Eden (2000), by P. Jane Hafen
11. Workin' for the Great White Father
Distant Drums (1951), by Denise K. Cummings
The Far Horizons (1955), by Frederick Hoxie
Thunderheart (1992), by Paul Robertson
Windtalkers (2002), by Deborah Miranda
12. What the Critics Said. . .
The Contributors
Ratings Sheet
Further Reading
Roll Credits
