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Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film - Hardcover
Synopsis
In this deeply engaging account, Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape HollywoodOCOs 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 audiences. These films have been highly influential in shaping perceptions of Indigenous peoples as, for example, a dying race or as inherently unable or unwilling to adapt to change. However, films with Indigenous plots and subplots also signify at least some degree of Native presence in a culture that largely defines Native peoples as absent or separate.
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About the Author
Michelle H. Raheja is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her articles have appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Quarterly, and edited volumes.
Review
"A fascinating resource for those interested in the history of Native Americans in film, the contradictions of racial visual representations, and the emergence of a Native filmmaking aesthetic."--J./i>--J. Ruppert "Choice "
"Raheja's archival research and extensive references to relatively unknown films will prove useful to scholars of indigenous media and representational practices, as will the exposition of visual sovereignty, the work's strongest contribution that will be discussed and utilized for years to come." --Leighton C./i>--Leighton C. Peterson"Journal of the American Ethnological Society" (07/17/2012)
"An exceptional addition to the growing scholarship on American Indian representation in film, this book complicates the dichotomy of powerful Hollywood and Native victims."--Michael W./i>--Michael W. Simpson"Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education" (05/15/2012)
""Reservation Reelism "is a very important read for anyone interested in Film Studies, Native American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies."--Jenell Navarro, "Taylor and Francis Online "--Jenell Navarro"Taylor and Francis Online" (10/14/2011)
"Deeply researched and beautifully conceptualized and written, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of history, film, and indigenous cultural production."--Beth H./i> --Beth H. Piatote "Western Historical Quarterly "
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