Visualities : perspectives on contemporary American Indian film and art / edited by Denise K. Cummings.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cummings, Denise K.
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Series:American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)
Subjects:
Indigenous arts > United States.
Arts and society > United States.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Intellectual life.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnic identity.
Visual communication > United States.
Indigenous films > United States.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
Indigenous motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography.
Indigenous art > United States.
Indigenous artists > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xxiv, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Indigenous visualities
  • pt. 1. Indigenous film practices. Visual prophecies : Imprint and It starts with a whisper / Michelle H. Raheja ; Indians watching Indians on TV : Native spectatorship and the politics of recognition in Skins and Smoke signals / Joanna Hearne ; Sherman shoots Alexie : working with and without reservation(s) in The business of fancydancing / Theo. Van Alst ; Elusive identities : representations of Native Latin America in the contemporary film industry / Rocío Quispe-Agnoli ; Condolence tropes and Haudenosaunee visuality : It starts with a whisper (1993) and Mohawk girls (2005) / Penelope Myrtle Kelsey ; Videographic sovereignty : Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie's Aboriginal world view / Joseph Bauerkemper
  • pt. 2. Contemporary American Indian art. Indigenous semiotics and shared modernity / Dean Rader ; Seeing memory, storying memory : Printup Hope, Rickard, Gansworth / Susan Bernardin ; Aboriginal beauty and self-determination : Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie's photographic projects / Cynthia Fowler ; Text-messaging prayers : George Longfish and his art of communication / Molly McGlennen.