The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the MoviesGretchen M. Bataille, Charles L. P. Silet Iowa State University Press, 1980 - 202 pages |
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... comic books , movies , radio , and TV until Tonto became the best of all possible Indians in a West so wild that Wasps had to wear masks . Pseudo - history - so the entertainment media insisted - was the only kind of Indian reservation ...
... comic books , movies , radio , and TV until Tonto became the best of all possible Indians in a West so wild that Wasps had to wear masks . Pseudo - history - so the entertainment media insisted - was the only kind of Indian reservation ...
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... comic strips to movie serials , such as Red Ryder ( 1940 ) and King of the Mounties ( 1942 ) . In the early 1940s there was a total of forty - four different Western pulp magazines , none of them Indian oriented . The B - Western Zorro ...
... comic strips to movie serials , such as Red Ryder ( 1940 ) and King of the Mounties ( 1942 ) . In the early 1940s there was a total of forty - four different Western pulp magazines , none of them Indian oriented . The B - Western Zorro ...
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... comic undermin- ing of Old Lodge Skins . In the novel , the Indian chief wills his death . In the movie , Old Lodge Skins's gesture ends with his comic re - awakening and his statement that " sometimes the magic doesn't work . " One can ...
... comic undermin- ing of Old Lodge Skins . In the novel , the Indian chief wills his death . In the movie , Old Lodge Skins's gesture ends with his comic re - awakening and his statement that " sometimes the magic doesn't work . " One can ...
Contents
Myth and Literature in a New World | 5 |
The Static Images | 16 |
The Indian as Media Handmedown 22 | 22 |
Copyright | |
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