Making the White Man's Indian Native Americans and Hollywood Movies

Name: Making the White Man's Indian Native Americans and Hollywood Movies
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ISBN: 9780313361333

ISBN-10: 0313361339

ISBN-13: 9780313361333

Edition: 2005

Authors: Angela Aleiss

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The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside those of hostile Indians in the silent films of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and flourished during the early 1930s with Hollywood's cycle of pro-Indian adventures. Decades later, the stereotype became even more complicated, as films depicted the savagery of whites (The Searchers) in contrast to the more peaceful Indian (Broken Arrow). By 1990 the release of Dances with Wolves appeared to have recycled the romantic and savage portrayals embedded in early cinema. In this new study, author…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 5/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

ANGELA ALEISS is a freelance film writer who has contributed to such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and The Washington Post. She is a former teaching fellow at UCLA's American Indian Studies Center, and currently lectures at California State University, Long Beach.