Ebook: Native Americans on film: conversations, teaching, and theory

Introduction: talking back, moving forward -- 1. Theoretical conversations -- Dimensions of difference in indigenous film / Houston Wood -- Reading Nanook's smile: visual sovereignty, indigenous revisions of ethnography, and Atanarjuat: The fast runner / Michelle H. Raheja -- Dismantling the master's house: the feminist fourth cinema documentaries of Alanis Obomsawin and Loretta Todd / Jennifer L. Gauthier -- Indigenous (re)memory and resistance: video works by Dana Claxton / Carla Taunton -- 2. Pedagogical conversations -- Native resistance to Hollywood's persistence of vision: teaching films about contemporary American Indians / Carole Gerster -- Geographies of identity and belonging in Sherman Alexie's The business of fancydancing / Amy Corbin -- Teaching Native American filmmakers: Osawa, Eyre, and Redroad / Angelica Lawson -- "The native's point of view" as seen through the native's (and non-native's) points of view / Sam Pack -- The dirt roads of consciousness: teaching and producing videos with an indigenous purpose / Beverly Singer -- 3. Conversations with filmmakers -- "Pockets full of stories": an interview with Sterlin Harjo and Blackhorse Lowe / Joanna Hearne and Zack Shlachter -- Wrestling the greased pig: an interview with Randy Redroad / M. Elise Marubbio -- An upstream journey: an interview with Sandra Osawa / Saza Osawa -- Video as community ally and Dakota sense of place: an interview with Mona Smith / Jennifer A. Machiorlatti -- The journey's discovery: an interview with Shelley Niro / Elizabeth Weatherford.