{"product_id":"imagic-moments-indigenous-north-american-film-9780820345154","title":"Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Indigenous North American film Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions  including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood. Although Indians in film have long been studied  especially as characters in Hollywood westerns  Indian film itself has received relatively little scholarly attention. In Imagic Moments Lee Schweninger offers a much-needed corrective  examining films in which the major inspiration  the source material  and the acting are essentially Native.  Schweninger looks at a selection of mostly narrative fiction films from the United States and Canada and places them in historical and generic contexts. Exploring films such as Powwow Highway  Smoke Signals  and Skins  he argues that in and of themselves these films constitute and in fact emphatically demonstrate forms of resistance and stories of survival as they talk back to Hollywood. Self-representation itself can be seen as a valid form of resistance and as an aspect of a cinema of sovereignty in which the Indigenous peoples represented are the same people who engage in the filming and who control the camera. Despite their low budgets and often nonprofessional acting  Indigenous films succeed in being all the more engaging in their own right and are indicative of the complexity  vibrancy  and survival of myriad contemporary Native cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648016080949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0820345156","price":33.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780820345154.jpg?v=1781706574","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/imagic-moments-indigenous-north-american-film-9780820345154","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}