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A Movement for Authenticity: American Indian Representations in Film, 1990 to Present

Williamson, Raya
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494330075140438

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2017, BA, Kent State University, College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Ambassador Crawford / Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
From the feared warrior and noble savage to the Indian princess and helpless squaw, American Indians have fallen into constructed stereotypes on film. These constructs, which began with the arrival of Europeans to the New World, eventually formed the 'Hollywood Indian,' a culmination of the Native stereotypes represented throughout American film. Many are familiar with the cultural wrongdoings of Western-era films, but where does the Hollywood Indian live in our modern-day films? How do the films impact society? In this paper, I analyze American Indian representations in film - and their societal impacts - from 1990 to present. I argue the era, despite its faults carried from earlier Western films, caters to a consumer-driven period for authenticity.
Donald Thacker (Advisor)
90 p.
Business Administration; Cultural Anthropology; Film Studies; Marketing; Native Americans
American Indians; Native Americans; Native; authenticity; film; consumer-driven; representations in film; movies; Dances with Wolves; Last of the Mohicans; Pocahontas; Smoke Signals; Atanarjuat; Flags of our Fathers; New Moon; The Revenant; marketing

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  • Williamson, R. (2017). A Movement for Authenticity: American Indian Representations in Film, 1990 to Present [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494330075140438

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Williamson, Raya. A Movement for Authenticity: American Indian Representations in Film, 1990 to Present. 2017. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494330075140438.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Williamson, Raya. "A Movement for Authenticity: American Indian Representations in Film, 1990 to Present." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494330075140438

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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