Visualities 2: More Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art(American Indian Studies)

Echoing and expanding the aims of the first volume, Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art, this second volume contains illuminating global Indigenous visualities concerning First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, Maori, and Sami peoples. This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Indigenous film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Visualities Two draws on American Indian studies, film studies, art history, cultural studies, visual culture studies, women’s studies, and postcolonial studies. Among the artists and media makers examined are Tasha Hubbard, Rachel Perkins, and Ehren “Bear Witness” Thomas, as well as contemporary Inuit artists and Indigenous agents of cultural production working to reimagine digital and social platforms. Films analyzed include The Exiles, Winter in the Blood, The Spirit of Annie Mae, Radiance, One Night the Moon, Bran Nue Dae, Ngati, Shimásání, and Sami Blood.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Indigenous Film Practices Relocating The Exiles, P. Jane Hafen Winter in the Blood: A Conversation, Joanna Hearne, with Lily Gladstone, Alex Smith, and Andrew Smith The Potential (and Pitfalls) of Activist Filmmaking: Indigenous Women's Activism in Th e Spirit of Annie Mae, Channette Romero Return Buffalo People: Against Genocide in Tasha Hubbard's Documentary and Animated Film, Penelope Myrtle Kelsey Visualities of Desire in Shimásání and Sami Blood, Denise K. Cummings Indigenizing Genre: The Films of Rachel Perkins, Jennifer L. Gauthier A Green and Pleasant Land: Barclay's Ngati and an Indigenous Film Aesthetics, Lee Schweninger Part Two. Contemporary American Indian Art Indigenizing Canadian Settler Monuments of Indians: Ehren "Bear Witness" Thomas's Video Make Your Escape, Laura E. Smith Inuit Agencies: The Legacy of Arctic Art Cooperatives and Indigenous Resistance, Molly McGlennen Epilogue. On the State of Media and Representation The Fourth World's New Digital Native Media: In Brief, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Contributors Index

About the Author :
Denise K. Cummings is Associate Professor of critical media and cultural studies at Rollins College, where she also coordinates the film studies program and teaches courses in critical cinema and media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, and Native American film, media, and culture. She is coeditor of Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film and editor of Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art.

Review :
“From decolonization to digital media, Visualities 2 is a broad conversation aware of how art has an impact on actual people in real communities. Indigenous people as readers of film and video by and about ourselves clearly influence these essays and make them richer, deeper, more real.” —HEID E. ERDRICH, author of Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media