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OverviewStanding at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experiences of Native actors on the sets of midcentury Hollywood Westerns. This behind-the-scenes look at costuming, makeup, contract negotiations, and union disparities uncovers an all-too-familiar narrative of racism and further complicates filmmakers' choices to follow mainstream representations of ""Indianness."" Liza Black offers a rare and overlooked perspective on American cinema history by giving voice to creators of movie Indians-the stylists, public relations workers, and the actors themselves. In exploring the inherent racism in sensationalizing Native culture for profit, Black also chronicles the little-known attempts of studios to generate cultural authenticity and historical accuracy in their films. She discusses the studios' need for actual Indians to participate in, legitimate, and populate such filmic narratives. But studios also told stories that made Indians sound less than Indian because of their skin color, clothing, and inability to do functions and tasks non-Indians considered authentically Indian. In the ongoing territorial dispossession of Native America, Native people worked in film as an economic strategy toward survival. Consulting new primary sources, including pay records and unpublished publicity photographs, Black has crafted an interdisciplinary experience showcasing what it meant to ""play Indian"" in post-World War II Hollywood. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Liza BlackPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9781496232649ISBN 10: 149623264 Pages: 354 Publication Date: 20 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “Just Like a Snake You’ll Be Crawling in Your Own Shit”: American Indians and White Narcissism 2. “Indians Agree to Perform and Act as Directed”: Urban Indian (and Non-Indian) Actors 3. “Not Desired by You for Photographing”: The Labor of American Indian (and Non-Indian) Extras 4. “White May Be More Than Skin Deep”: Whites in Redface 5. “A Bit Thick”: The Transformation of Indians into Movie Indians 6. “Dig Up a Good Indian Historian”: The Search for Authenticity Epilogue Notes Bibliography Filmography IndexReviewsThis book is necessary reading to anyone interested in studying Native American visual representation. -Steve Pelletier, American Indian Culture and Research Journal In both method and content, this book charts a new movement in Indigenous film studies in particular and film studies in general. It is welcome, indeed. -Jennifer L. Jenkins, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Meticulously researched, this engrossing volume files a deep void in both film studies and Native American history. -Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine Liza Black systematically studies Indian characters in the Hollywood films of the l940s and l950s and shows how film created a single type of Indian for Native and non-Native actors, though the latter often received higher pay. Black disables this construct, and she offers a stunning history of the experiences of Native American actors who worked in the film industry during these years. -Lisbeth Haas, author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California Liza Black's exhaustively researched study of American Indian actors fills a gap in scholarship on Native American performance by focusing on the most influential and damaging period for Hollywood's representations of Native peoples. Highlighting their efforts to make a living in the film industry and negotiate its expectations, Black powerfully demonstrates Native people's survival and agency, as well as the ways popular culture created and abetted narratives that continue to support indigenous erasure and dispossession. -Nicolas G. Rosenthal, author of Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles Author InformationLiza Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles and an associate professor of history and Native American and Indigenous studies at Indiana University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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