Film and Archaeology in the Indigenous and Industrial American West

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ID2163191
AuthorsAdam Fish (0000-0001-5724-635X, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume24
Issue3
Pages246-265
Publication date2011-03-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08949468.2010.508938
OpenAlexW1978594825
LanguageEN
References cited18

Phenomenological and postcolonial archaeologies of film bracket the artifactual images and historical narratives in two films depicting hydraulic industrialization in the 20th-century Native American West of the United States. The documentary Echoes of Yesterday [Ball and Gibby 1939, 1979] consists of industrial and archaeological footage shot in 1939 and remixed in 1979 which depicts the building of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State, the relocating of indigenous villages there, and disinterring of Native American dead. The independent magical realism film Northfork [Polish 2003] is based on the building of the Fort Peck Dam on the Missouri River in Montana and the subsequent relocation of people and graves in that area. Both films animate the historic Modern period (1934–1975) and present the cultural losses, nostalgia and redemption attendant in a transition to a Supermodern period (1975–present)

Aesthetics · American west · Archaeology · Art · Colonial period · Colonialism · Ethnology · Indigenous · Narrative · Native american · Period (music · Relocation · State (computer science · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez

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