Beverly Singer: 2 books
Native Americans on Film
Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years,...
Wiping the War Paint off the Lens
Native American Film and Video
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
Native Americans have thrown themselves into filmmaking since the mid-1970s, producing hundreds of films and videos, and their body of work has had great impact on Native cultures and filmmaking itself. With their cameras, they capture the lives of Native people, celebrating community, ancestral lifeways,...