SOCB53H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Proposal (Film), Masculinity, Reel Injun
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Reel injun: on the trail of the hollywood indian (film) How are indigenous people represented by hollywood: uncivilized/savage. More a part of nature than being human: dangerous, noble indian/savage. Problematic because it"s portrayed as something innate. A stereotype that not many people will fit, and therefore they aren"t considered a true indigenous person : magical or mythical. Dangerous because they are still here, and it dehistoricizes them. What radicalizing discourses can you identify: fear, wanted to be them. What roles do ideas about indianness play here: close to nature, spiritual, supernatural, primitive, exotic, lack of specificity, and implies an absence. Does the media cause racism: don"t necessarily cause it, but we can ask: How does this documentary present a counter-narrative of. Strategies of resistance: art: reversing the gaze. Making it in his paintings that the indigenous are looking back at the europeans: portrayal of complexity and plurality (multiple stories, not everyone is the same)