'Injuns!' Native Americans in the Movies

Name: 'Injuns!' Native Americans in the Movies
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ISBN: 9781861892799

ISBN-10: 1861892799

ISBN-13: 9781861892799

Edition: 2006

Authors: Edward Buscombe

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The indispensable sage, fierce enemy, silent sidekick: the role of Native Americans in film has been largely confined to identities defined by the "white" perspective. Many studies have analyzed these simplistic stereotypes of Native American cultures in film, but few have looked beyond the Hollywood Western for further examples. Distinguished film scholar Edward Buscombe offers here an incisive study that examines cinematic depictions of Native Americans from a global perspective. Buscombe opens with a historical survey of American Westerns and their controversial portrayals of Native Americans: the wild redmen of nineteenth-century Wild West shows, the more sympathetic depictions of…

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 10/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 4.75" wide x 6.70" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Edward Buscombe was formerly Head of Publishing at the British Film Institute, has written extensively on the Western, including books on John Ford’s <em Stagecoach</em (1992) and <em The Searchers</em (2000), and has edited <em The BFI Companion to the Western</em (1988).




The formation of a genre



The liberal western



Passing as an Indian



Indians in the European western



Indians not Injuns