{"product_id":"imagic-moments-indigenous-north-american-film-paperback","title":"Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLee Schweninger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Indigenous North American film Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions, including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood. Although Indians in film have long been studied, especially as characters in Hollywood westerns, Indian film itself has received relatively little scholarly attention. In \u003ci\u003eImagic Moments\u003c\/i\u003e Lee Schweninger offers a much-needed corrective, examining films in which the major inspiration, the source material, and the acting are essentially Native. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSchweninger looks at a selection of mostly narrative fiction films from the United States and Canada and places them in historical and generic contexts. Exploring films such as \u003ci\u003ePowwow Highway, Smoke Signals\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Skins\u003c\/i\u003e, he argues that in and of themselves these films constitute and in fact emphatically demonstrate forms of resistance and stories of survival as they talk back to Hollywood. Self-representation itself can be seen as a valid form of resistance and as an aspect of a cinema of sovereignty in which the Indigenous peoples represented are the same people who engage in the filming and who control the camera. Despite their low budgets and often nonprofessional acting, Indigenous films succeed in being all the more engaging in their own right and are indicative of the complexity, vibrancy, and survival of myriad contemporary Native cultures.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLEE SCHWENINGER is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is the author or editor of numerous books including \u003ci\u003eThe First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47408641671346,"sku":"9780820345154","price":124.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/6ee41b05711fb3620cfaf7dd7418db97.webp?v=1778249805","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/imagic-moments-indigenous-north-american-film-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}