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Author Kilpatrick, Jacquelyn, 1950-

Title Celluloid Indians : Native Americans and film / Jacquelyn Kilpatrick.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1999]
©1999

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  791.43652 K48C    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Filmography: pages [249]-250.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-248) and index.
Contents Genesis of the stereotypes -- The silent scrim -- The cowboy talkies of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s -- Win some and lose some: the 1960s and 1970s -- The sympathetic 1980s and 1990s -- The American Indian aesthetic -- Coming attractions?
Summary An overview of Indian representation in Hollywood films. The author notes the change in tone for the better when--as a result of McCarthyism--filmmakers found themselves among the oppressed. By an Irish-Cherokee writer.
Subject Indians in motion pictures.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
ISBN 0803277903 paperback alkaline paper
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