{"product_id":"9780816537402","title":"Native Apparitions: Critical Perspectives on Hollywood's Indians","description":"In Cherokee, the term for motion picture is \u003ci\u003ea-da-yv-la-ti\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003ea-da-yu-la-ti\u003c\/i\u003e, meaning “something that appears.” In essence, motion pictures are machine-produced apparitions. While the Cherokee language recognizes that movies are not reality, Western audiences may on some level assume that film portrayals offer sincere depictions of imagined possibilities, creating a logic where what is projected must in part be true, stereotype or not.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNative Apparitions\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical intervention and response to Hollywood’s representations of Native peoples in film, from historical works by director John Ford to more contemporary works, such as \u003ci\u003eApocalypto\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAvatar\u003c\/i\u003e. But more than a critique of stereotypes, this book is a timely call for scholarly activism engaged in Indigenous media sovereignty. The collection clusters around three approaches: retrospective analysis, individual film analysis, and Native- and industry-centered testimonials and interviews, which highlight indigenous knowledge and cultural context, thus offering a complex and multilayered dialogic and polyphonic response to Hollywood’s representations.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Using an American Indian studies framework, \u003ci\u003eNative Apparitions\u003c\/i\u003e deftly illustrates the connection between Hollywood’s representations of Native peoples and broader sociopolitical and historical contexts connected to colonialism, racism, and the Western worldview. Most importantly, it shows the impact of racializing stereotypes on Native peoples, and the resilience of Native peoples in resisting, transcending, and reframing Hollywood’s Indian tropes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e CONTRIBUTORS\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chadwick Allen\u003cbr\u003e Richard Allen\u003cbr\u003e Joanna Hearne\u003cbr\u003e Tom Holm\u003cbr\u003e Jan-Christopher Horak\u003cbr\u003e Jacqueline Land\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Okpeaha MacLean\u003cbr\u003e M. Elise Marubbio\u003cbr\u003e Steve Pavlik\u003cbr\u003e Rose Roberts\u003cbr\u003e Myrton Running Wolf\u003cbr\u003e Richard M. Wheelock","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069395058928,"sku":"9780816537402","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780816537402_p0.jpg?v=1763748673","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780816537402","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}