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

Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 243 pages) Series American Indian studies series American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.) Contents ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Indigenous Visualities""; ""Part One: 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) inThe Business of Fancydancing -- Theo. Van Alst ""; ""Elusive Identities: Representations of Native Latin America in the Contemporary Film Industry -- RocÃo Quispe-Agnoli "" ""Condolence Tropes and Haudenosaunee Visuality: It Starts with a Whisper and Mohawk Girls -- Penelope Myrtle Kelsey """"Videographic Sovereignty: Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnieâ€?s Aboriginal World View -- Joseph Bauerkemper ""; ""Part Two: 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 Tsinhnahjinnieâ€?s Photographic Projects -- Cynthia Fowler "" ""Text-Messaging Prayers: George Longfish and His Art of Communication -- Molly McGlennen """"Contributors""; ""Index"" Summary In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, and Chris Eyre have illustrated the importance of visual culture as a means to mediate identity in contemporary Native America. This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Native film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how Indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Indian arts -- United States Arts and society -- United States Indians of North America -- Intellectual life Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity. Visual communication -- United States Indigenous films -- United States Indians in motion pictures. Indian motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography Indian art -- United States Indian artists -- United States -- Biography HISTORY -- General. Arts and society. Indian art. Indian artists. Indian arts. Indian motion picture producers and directors. Indians in motion pictures. Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity. Indians of North America -- Intellectual life. Indigenous films. Visual communication. United States. Genre/Form Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Cummings, Denise K., editor LC no. 2010051908 ISBN 9781609172312 1609172310 9781628961461 1628961465 9781628951462 162895146X

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