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Cinematic representation of American Indians: a critical cultural analysis of a contemporary American Indian-directed film
Description
Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Tribal Critical Race Theory (TribCrit) as a theoretical framework, this dissertation analyzes a contemporary cinematic film directed by an American Indian filmmaker about American Indians and answers the question of whether the visual texts are unmasking, critiquing, confronting, and/or reinforcing reductive and stereotypical images of American Indians. Using Critical Thematic Analysis as a process, this dissertation interrogates Drunktown’s Finest (2014) to understand ways a contemporary American Indian filmmaker engages in counterstorying as a sovereignist action and simultaneously investigates ways the visual narrative and imagery in the film contributes to the reinforcement of hegemonic representations—the static, constrained, White-generated images and narratives that have been sustained in the hegemonic culture for over a century. With an increase in the number of American Indian filmmakers entering into the cultural elitist territory of Hollywood, moving from the margins to the center, I believe Natives are now in a better position to apprehend and reconstruct a multidimensional and complex American Indian identity. I posit that the reshaping of these mass-mediated images can only be countered through the collective and sustained fostering of a more complex imagery of the American Indian and that authorship of the representation is crucial to changing the hegemonic imagery of American Indians.
Date Created
2017
Contributors
- Holiday-Shchedrov, Dawna (Author)
- Sandlin, Jennifer (Thesis advisor)
- Swadener, Beth Blue (Thesis advisor)
- Brayboy, Bryan (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
viii, 145 pages
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.46280
Statement of Responsibility
by Dawna Holiday-Shchedrov
Description Source
Viewed on July 25, 2018
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2017
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-145)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Curriculum and instruction
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