Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960
- ISBN-10
- 0803296800
- ISBN-13
- 9780803296800
- Series
- Picturing Indians
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Liza Black
Description
Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post-World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of "Indianness."
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- 2022-12-20
- 354 pages
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- 2008
- 194 pages
- Paperback
- Univ of Wisconsin Press
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