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  • Celluloid Indians

    Native Americans and Film

    par Jacquelyn Kilpatrick ...
    Native American characters have been the most malleable of metaphors for filmmakers. The likeable Doc of Stagecoach (1939) had audiences on the edge of their seats with dire warnings about “that old butcher, Geronimo.” Old Lodgeskins of Little Big Man (1970) had viewers crying out against the demise of the noble, wise chief and his kind and simple people. In 1995 Disney created a beautiful, peace ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

    par Thomas King ...
    Collections series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with ... En savoir plus

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  • Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

    Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

    par Larry McMurtry ...
    In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.Using an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Western

    par David Carter ...
    From the very beginnings of American cinema the Western has been a central genre, as the hazardous lives of the settlers, their conflict with Native Americans, the lawless frontier towns, outlaws, and cattle rustlers all found their way into the new medium of film. This book provides a basic work of reference for all the major directors and noteworthy films of the genre. It discusses how folk ... En savoir plus

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  • Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong

    par Paul Chaat Smith ...
    Collections series Indigenous Americas
    Forceful and eloquent essays on the American Indian in culture and historyIn this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in “the Indian business.”Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the 1970s, working with the American Indian ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Sherman Alexie

    A Collection of Critical Essays

    Modifié par Jeff Berglund, Jan Roush ...
    Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.Now, for the first time, a volume of critical essays is devoted to Alexie's work both in ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Reservation Reelism

    Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film

    par Michelle H. Raheja ...
    In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Wayne and Ford

    The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero

    par Nancy Schoenberger ...
    John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined—the Western—and the heroic archetype they built still matter today.For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning out many of the finest Western films ever made. Ford, known for his black eye patch and for his hard-drinking, ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Hollywood's West

    The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History

    par Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor ...
    "An excellent study that should interest film buffs, academics, and non-academics alike" ( Journal of the West).Hollywood's West examines popular perceptions of the frontier as a defining feature of American identity and history. Seventeen essays by prominent film scholars illuminate the allure of life on the edge of civilization and analyze how this region has been represented on big and small ... En savoir plus

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  • The Philosophy of the Western

    par Jennifer L. McMahon, B. Steve Csaki ...
    Collections series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Essays about how stories of the Old West reflect—and affect—our beliefs and values.The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West—for many, Western movies embody America and its values, though the view of the country's history they present isn't always accurate. In recent years, scholars had declared the genre dead, but a steady resurgence of western ... En savoir plus

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  • Hollywood's Indian

    The Portrayal of the Native American in Film

    Modifié par Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $27.49 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature

    par Paul Varner ...
    Collections series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    When in 1902 Owen Wister, a member of the Eastern blueblood aristocracy and friend of novelist Henry James, became a best-selling novelist with the publication of The Virginian, few readers would have guessed that a new kind of American literature was being born. While Owen Wister was enjoying his success, Edwin S. Porter in New Jersey was filming the first cinema Western The Great Train Robbery, ... En savoir plus

    $168.99 CAD