Angela Alei
Biographic Data
| ID | 457832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Alei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Alei |
| SIGNATURE | ALEI A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making the White Man's Indian
The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside those of hostile Indians in the silent films of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and flourished during the early 1930s with Hollywood's cycle of pro-Indian adventures. Decades later, the stereotype became even more complicated, as films depicted the …
A Race Divided
No film director has created as enduring an image of the American West as has John Ford. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, Ford directed approximately 135 films, of which close to sixty were Westerns. His depiction of American Indians has been especially controversial: While his adversaries bemoan the savage portrayals of American Indians in The Searchers, his defenders counter with the sympathetic images presented in Wagon Mast…
Le Bon Sauvage
The noble savage, according to eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is an individual living in a “pure state of nature”-gentle, wise, uncorrupted by the vices of civilization. Producer-director Kevin Costner brings this vision to his film Dances with Wolves, and thus he creates a nation of Sioux Indians living in a golden age, free from European social convention and removed from the failings of ”civilization.” His film is…
Hollywood Addresses Postwar Assimilation
The release of Delmer Daves’s Broken Arrow in 1950 represented a turning point in Hollywood’s portrayal of American Indians. Often cited as Hollywood’s first sound film to depict the American Indian sympathetically, Broken Arrow appealed to an ideal of tolerance and racial equality that became prominent in later Westerns. The film took a major step in the breakdown of conventional stereotypes, and in doing so made an emphatic statement about Amer…
Hollywood Addresses Indian Reform
Making the White Man's Indian
The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside those of hostile Indians in the silent films of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and flourished during the early 1930s with Hollywood's cycle of pro-Indian adventures. Decades later, the stereotype became even more complicated, as films depicted the …
A Race Divided
No film director has created as enduring an image of the American West as has John Ford. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, Ford directed approximately 135 films, of which close to sixty were Westerns. His depiction of American Indians has been especially controversial: While his adversaries bemoan the savage portrayals of American Indians in The Searchers, his defenders counter with the sympathetic images presented in Wagon Mast…
Hollywood Addresses Postwar Assimilation
The release of Delmer Daves’s Broken Arrow in 1950 represented a turning point in Hollywood’s portrayal of American Indians. Often cited as Hollywood’s first sound film to depict the American Indian sympathetically, Broken Arrow appealed to an ideal of tolerance and racial equality that became prominent in later Westerns. The film took a major step in the breakdown of conventional stereotypes, and in doing so made an emphatic statement about Amer…
Hollywood Addresses Indian Reform
Hollywood Addresses Postwar Assimilation
The release of Delmer Daves’s Broken Arrow in 1950 represented a turning point in Hollywood’s portrayal of American Indians. Often cited as Hollywood’s first sound film to depict the American Indian sympathetically, Broken Arrow appealed to an ideal of tolerance and racial equality that became prominent in later Westerns. The film took a major step in the breakdown of conventional stereotypes, and in doing so made an emphatic statement about Amer…
Le Bon Sauvage
The noble savage, according to eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is an individual living in a “pure state of nature”-gentle, wise, uncorrupted by the vices of civilization. Producer-director Kevin Costner brings this vision to his film Dances with Wolves, and thus he creates a nation of Sioux Indians living in a golden age, free from European social convention and removed from the failings of ”civilization.” His film is…
A Race Divided
No film director has created as enduring an image of the American West as has John Ford. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, Ford directed approximately 135 films, of which close to sixty were Westerns. His depiction of American Indians has been especially controversial: While his adversaries bemoan the savage portrayals of American Indians in The Searchers, his defenders counter with the sympathetic images presented in Wagon Mast…
Making the White Man's Indian
The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside those of hostile Indians in the silent films of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and flourished during the early 1930s with Hollywood's cycle of pro-Indian adventures. Decades later, the stereotype became even more complicated, as films depicted the …
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