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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... savage . " In the end , the Native American was all but destroyed . Initially , the impulses of the colonists ... noble savage , a product of what Pearce calls Anglo - French primitivistic thinking , gave way to the realization that the ...
... savage . " In the end , the Native American was all but destroyed . Initially , the impulses of the colonists ... noble savage , a product of what Pearce calls Anglo - French primitivistic thinking , gave way to the realization that the ...
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... noble savage to fit with the preexisting image of the Indian in America - one to be pitied and censured , and the doomed noble savage became a part of American culture . It was easy enough to pity the Indian , especially after his fall ...
... noble savage to fit with the preexisting image of the Indian in America - one to be pitied and censured , and the doomed noble savage became a part of American culture . It was easy enough to pity the Indian , especially after his fall ...
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... noble savage as well as the oversympathetic portrayals in films since 1950 . .. Hollywood : The Golden Era . New York : A. S. Barnes , 1971 . Spears acknowledges that Hollywood has had little concern for historical accuracy or honest ...
... noble savage as well as the oversympathetic portrayals in films since 1950 . .. Hollywood : The Golden Era . New York : A. S. Barnes , 1971 . Spears acknowledges that Hollywood has had little concern for historical accuracy or honest ...
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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