AIS 199

Fall 2007

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Credit: 1 TO 5 hours.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
50230
Lecture-Discussion
UG
10:00AM -11:20AM
MW
385 Education Building
Ngo, F
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/07-12/07/07
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Race, Gender and Sexuality
47168
Lecture-Discussion
UH
3:00PM -4:15PM
TR
150 English Building
Byrd, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/07-12/07/07
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
AIS American Indians in Film
Section Info:
This course will focus on the ways in which Hollywood and other national cinema have portrayed the native "other" in films produced primarily between the 1950s and the present. We will begin with explorations of images and stereotypes of American Indians, focusing on how they have developed and changed over the years. Then, building on those understandings, we will question the narrative function of the native "other" in films, their relationship to plot, theme, and character, and how films about Indians play into the myths and imagination of the dominant society. Of particular concern will be the historical and material contexts for these movies and the cultural and political climate from which they emerge. By contextualizing the movies through the concerns of both the dominant society and of indigenous communities at the time these movies are produced, we can understand how representations of indigenous peoples serve not only to misinform but also speak on some fundamental level to the historical obsessions of the society that has produced them. Some of the questions we will focus on throughout the course include: How do anxieties about particular historical moments inflect the ways that Hollywood returns to the recurring trope of Cowboys and Indians? How do these images and films connect to empire buildings and extend the work of Manifest Destiny? How have Westerns been translated to Pacific settings? Finally, we will look at the ways native filmmakers have been and are attempting to intervene into the different movie genres to transform and control media images of Indians.
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