Imagic moments : indigenous North American film

Schweninger, Lee. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780820345147 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0820345148 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780820345154 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0820345156 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: where to concentrate -- He was still the chief: Masayesva's imagining Indians -- Into the city: ordered freedom in The exiles -- The native presence in film: House made of dawn -- A concordance of narrative voices: Harold, trickster, and Harold of Orange -- I don't do portraits: Medicine River and the art of photography -- Keep your pony out of my garden: Powwow highway and "being Cheyenne" -- Feeling extra magical: the art of disappearing in Smoke signals -- Making his own music: death and life in The business of fancydancing -- Sharing the kitchen: Naturally native and women in American Indian film -- In the form of a spider: the interplay of narrative fiction and documentary in Skins -- The stories pour out: taking control in The doe boy -- Telling our own stories: seeking identity in Tkaronto -- People come around in circles: Harjo's Four sheets to the wind -- Epilogue: Barking water and beyond.