Childhood Indians
Subtitle: television, film and sustaining the white (sub)conscience
By: by Raul S. Chavez
Publisher: [CreateSpace]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Scotts Valley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781453698617
Subjects: Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Indians in motion pictures; Racism in motion pictures; Stereotypes (Social psychology); Stereotyp; Rassismus; Indigenous peoples in motion pictures; Racism; Racism on television; Indianer; Film; History
Description: Using race theory, film studies, colonialist and post-colonialist literature, while studying a cross-section of cinematic Indian depictions in westerns aired over the past seven decades, Raul Chavez has sought to explain how the western film genre have influenced viewers, in particular the Baby-Boomer generation of the 1950s, '60s and '70s to internalize the misrepresented movie depiction of Indians as representative of the real "Indian." These Indian depictions, his "childhood Indians," sustain the subliminally accepted white supremacist imagery that deny Natives their rightful place in American society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-240).
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The white (sub)conscience: if it's invisible, then racism no longer exists; title: 3. Holding the fort: early cinematic Indian images maintain the colonizer mentality of the national myth; title: 4. The "good Indian" films: dependent Indians and great fathers; title: 5. Serving the nation proudly: the allegorical Indian, Cold War, civil rights and the Vietnam War; title: 6. Lord John Morgan and Lt. John Dunbar to the rescue: revisionist Hollywood and sustaining the white (sub)conscience; title: Epilogue. Revisiting Boonesborough, the quest for adventure, and misplaced thought.