ABS201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Joe Falls, Kanesatake, Quebec, Dustin Hoffman
15 Jun 2016
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There will be no exam for this course. The research paper is now worth 30% The field research (participation assignment) is now worth 20: paragraph + raw data by april 1st, 2015 at noon, send it as a word document, make sure your name and student number is on it, no extensions! Media images of aboriginal people have certain qualities: consider bugs bunny cartoons from 1940s and 1960s. Ticklish joe falls off the cliff and creates america. Representations of aboriginal people in news and films show native people with beer bottles: emphasizes image of the drunk indian". Movies including: shadow of the wolf, dances with wolves, the light in the forest. Very few of these movies had aboriginal actors. Non-aboriginal people are playing non-aboriginal roles: dustin hoffman is not aboriginal but played an indian. Common plots were built on indians as the villains of the story.
