COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Frontier Thesis, Noble Savage, Taylor Lautner

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Chris Russill

Document Summary

Historical context, or where the images came from. In the 19th century we saw the evolution of media technologies: when they originated, they produced political economic goals; part of a historical context, tells you about the context of when it was created. Edward curtis (media practitioner) travelled in the west and canada, taking pictures of natives. Effort by us and canadian government to get rid of native culture, wanted to collect culture and language, and even people themselves. Wanted to collect images of people who were vanishing believed they would cease to exist. Motion picture film would pay actors to perform. Wanted to create what he thought the audience would think was authentic, i. e. making them wear long wigs or headdresses. Rifle and the horse aren"t native to na. Tried to make natives look as primitive as possible; no european/western clothing, no watches or other western technologies.