Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film
"Raises interesting issues and challenges readers to consider the complex realities of American Indian cultures and Indian/non-Indian relations that major motion pictures often fail to communicate." -- American Graduate"Important and groundbreaking work." -- Bookman News"Enables readers to construct a cinematic chronology of the Hollywood Indian and to comprehend the larger cultural forces at work interpreting the Indian-white past on screen." -- Choice"Rollins and O'Connor have skillfully blended a variety of thoughtful veiwpoints." -- Chronicles of Oklahoma"A collection of quality essays, put together by two of the leading experts in this particular topic area." -- Communication Booknotes Quarterly"Hollywood's representation of Indians is a subject which up till now has generated a lot more heat than light. This welcome new collection of essays covers a lot of ground... including a valuable piece on Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans and earlier versions of Cooper's 'Leatherstocking Tales,' a surprisingly and convincingly sympathetic essay on Dances with Wolves, and an informative account of Pocahontas." -- Edward Buscombe"Will become the standard source for reference for an important subject, not only in American contemporary popular culture, but for evolving attitudes in a new century." -- Film and History"The essays provide valuable ways to think about the meaning and impact of Hollywood's portrayal of American Indian characters." -- Great Plains Quarterly"Offers an engaging and timely update to previous critical anthologies." -- H-Net Book Review"An engaging and timely update to previous critical anthologies." -- Journal of American Culture"The value of this collection resides in the concentrated attention it gives to the portrayal of Native Americans on film." -- Journal of American Ethnic History"The essays are solid pieces that place the films in a proper historical and artistic context." -- Journal of American History"The essays add to the growing literature on films about American Indians, and individually, they provide interesting insights into the process of movie-making and viewing." -- North Carolina Historical Review"A welcome contribution to the lively and timely debate on the representation of ethnic minorities in the media." -- Zeitscrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik"An excellent set of essays on the subject." -- Choice