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The Pretend Indians : images of native Americans in the movies / edited by Gretchen M. Bataille, Charles L. P. Silet.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1980.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxix, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813809258
  • 0813807158 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/09/093520397
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.I48 P7
Contents:
[The native American : myth and media stereotyping] -- Myth and literature in a new world / Richard Slotkin -- The demon of the continent / Leslie A. Fiedler -- The static images / John C. Ewers -- The Indian as media hand-me-down / Donald L. Kaufmann -- Examination of stereotyping : an analytical survey of twentieth-century Indian entertainers / Ward Churchill, Mary Anne Hill, and Norbert S. Hill, Jr. -- The American Indian image in North America / Vine Deloria -- [The Indian in the film : early views] -- The 'Make-believe' Indian / Anon. -- Moving picture absurdities / W. Stephen Bush -- The dangers of employing Redskins as movie actors / Ernest Alfred Dench -- The Hollywooden Indian / Stanley Vestal -- The Red Man plays Indian / James F. Denton -- [The Indian in the film : later views] -- The stereotyping of North American Indians in motion pictures / John A. Price -- White man speaks with split tongue, forked tongue, tongue of snake / Ralph E. Friar and Natasha A. Friar -- The Indian in the Western movie / Philip French -- The role of the American Indians in motion pictures / Rita Keshena -- Reflections on the new Western films : The Jewish cowboy, the Black avenger, and the return of the vanishing American / John G. Cawelti -- [Photographic essay on the American Indian as portrayed by Hollywood] -- [Contemporary reviews] -- They have not spoken : American Indians in film / Dan Georgakas -- And afterwards, take him to a movie / Susan Rice -- Why Indians can't be villains any more / Richard Schickel -- Cheyenne Autumn / v. F. Perkins -- Little Big Man : the novel and the film / John W. Turner -- Americana : Tell them Willie boy is here / Pauline Kael -- A man called Horse and Flap / Stephen Farber -- Ulzana's raid / Richard Combs -- Buffalo Bill and the Indians / Tom Milne.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [175]-193.

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[The native American : myth and media stereotyping] -- Myth and literature in a new world / Richard Slotkin -- The demon of the continent / Leslie A. Fiedler -- The static images / John C. Ewers -- The Indian as media hand-me-down / Donald L. Kaufmann -- Examination of stereotyping : an analytical survey of twentieth-century Indian entertainers / Ward Churchill, Mary Anne Hill, and Norbert S. Hill, Jr. -- The American Indian image in North America / Vine Deloria -- [The Indian in the film : early views] -- The 'Make-believe' Indian / Anon. -- Moving picture absurdities / W. Stephen Bush -- The dangers of employing Redskins as movie actors / Ernest Alfred Dench -- The Hollywooden Indian / Stanley Vestal -- The Red Man plays Indian / James F. Denton -- [The Indian in the film : later views] -- The stereotyping of North American Indians in motion pictures / John A. Price -- White man speaks with split tongue, forked tongue, tongue of snake / Ralph E. Friar and Natasha A. Friar -- The Indian in the Western movie / Philip French -- The role of the American Indians in motion pictures / Rita Keshena -- Reflections on the new Western films : The Jewish cowboy, the Black avenger, and the return of the vanishing American / John G. Cawelti -- [Photographic essay on the American Indian as portrayed by Hollywood] -- [Contemporary reviews] -- They have not spoken : American Indians in film / Dan Georgakas -- And afterwards, take him to a movie / Susan Rice -- Why Indians can't be villains any more / Richard Schickel -- Cheyenne Autumn / v. F. Perkins -- Little Big Man : the novel and the film / John W. Turner -- Americana : Tell them Willie boy is here / Pauline Kael -- A man called Horse and Flap / Stephen Farber -- Ulzana's raid / Richard Combs -- Buffalo Bill and the Indians / Tom Milne.