American Indians and popular culture [electronic resource] / Elizabeth DeLaney Hoffman, editor
- Published:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations
- Additional Creators:
- Hoffman, Elizabeth DeLaney, 1965-
Access Online
- Contents:
- v. 1. Media, sports, and politics -- v. 2. Literature, arts, and resistance., Vol. 1 : Media, sports, and politics. Portrayals of American Indians in early radio / Kathleen M. German ; American Indians in silent film, 1894-1929 / Kathleen M. German ; Writing Indian stereotypes : the role of the screenplay in American Westerns / Susan Tavernetti ; Elvis as Indian in film and life / Michael Snyder ; Cries with Indians : "Going Indian" with the ecological Indian from Rousseau to Avatar / Robert Baird ; American Indian feature filmmakers and popular culture / Angelica Lawson ; "It's a good day to be indigenous" : Sherman Alexie's films / Richard Sax ; Boarding and residential school experiences in film / Grace Chaillier ; Ubiquitous American Indian stereotypes in television / Frederick White ; American Indians in print advertising since 1890 / Stephanie A.L. Molholt ; The continuing hunt for Willie Boy, 1909-2009 / James A. Sandos and Larry E. Burgess ; Jackpot! : Marketing the American Indian casino / Danielle Newton and Nancy Van Leuven ; How Kennewick Man and media constructs frame Indian identity / Cynthia-Lou Coleman ; Will electronic media be the death or rebirth of endangered American Indian languages? / John Peacock ; Native people in American mythology and popular culture / Richard M. Wheelock ; American Indian sports : a historical overview / Wade Davies ; How boarding school basketball became Indian basketball / Wade Davies ; American Indian imagery in sport and the public imagination / Ellen J. Staurowsky ; Sacagawea : super hero, super woman, super myth / Selene G. Phillips ; Mardi Gras Indians : spiritualism or Indian stereotype? / Ron Welburn ; Indians in the military / Dean Chavers ; The American Indian movement in popular culture / Jon Reyhner ; Seneca resistance : surviving the Kinzua Dam / Urszula Piasta., and Vol. 2 : Literature, arts, and resistance. Anticipating the renaissance : Cogewea and trends in modern American Indian literature / John K. Donaldson ; Leslie Marmon Silko : mapping radical histories / Ami M. Regier ; Windigo cars and high-stakes gambling in the novels of Louise Erdrich / Shirley Brozzo ; Sherman Alexie and popular culture : magic in the mix / Lara Narcisi ; The curious case of Asa Carter and The education of Little Tree / Laura Browder ; The "savage" sublime in novels by A.A. Carr and Joseph Boyden / Kathryn Shanley ; Twilight : a worldwide pop phenomenon with a Quileute slant / Chelleye L. Crow ; Alaska Native writers and the power of stories / Jeane Breinig ; MacGyvering pop culture : blending traditions in Canada / Blanca Schorcht ; "This is the world without end" : American Indian poetry from 1980-2010 / Dean Rader ; Writing the Rez : popular obsessions in the works of Eric Gansworth / Oliver de la Paz and John Lloyd Purdy ; Art, authenticity, and identity at Santa Fe Indian Market / Carter Jones Meyer ; Leap of faith : contemporary American Indian art and American visual culture / Paul Manoguerra ; Indigenous architecture / Ted Jojola ; American Indians in post-World War II popular music / Michael Leonard Cox ; Rez Riddims : Reggae and American Indians / David Walsh ; Notions of Indianness and contemporary Native dance / Michael Greyeyes ; Powwows / Chris Goertzen and Tammy Greer ; Powwow dance / Tammy Greer and Chris Goertzen ; Adaptation as tradition : Southwestern Indians and pop culture / Conrad Shumaker ; Living in vitrines : museum treatments of American Indians / Karen Coody Cooper ; Where are the blankets? Where is the pottery? The Institute of American Indian Arts nears fifty / James Thomas Stevens ; The National Museum of the American Indian and the politics of display / Scott Manning Stevens.
- Summary:
- "Americans are still fascinated by the romantic notion of the "noble savage," yet know little about the real Native peoples of North America. This two-volume work seeks to remedy that by examining stereotypes and celebrating the true cultures of American Indians today"--
- Subject(s):
- Indians in popular culture—United States
- Indians of North America—Public opinion
- Public opinion—United States
- Ethnic attitudes—United States
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)—United States
- Indians of North America—Social life and customs
- United States—Ethnic relations
- United States—Civilization—Indian influences
- ISBN:
- 9780313379918 (electronic bk.)
0313379912 (electronic bk.) - Note:
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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