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- Title
A Postcolonial Approach to Indigenous Filmmaking in North America.
- Authors
Knopf, Kerstin
- Abstract
The article discusses the postcolonial approach to the analysis of Indigenous filmmaking in North America. It cites the different functions of postcolonial theory in the analysis of film including to reveal colonialist relations and practices of romanticizing, essentializing, and othering and to determine dichotomies and derived binaries. It claims that an essentializing position poses danger and argues that language variance is a metaphor of cultural difference.
- Subjects
NORTH America; POSTCOLONIALISM in motion pictures; FILMMAKING; MOTION picture plots &; themes; INDIGENOUS films
- Publication
Cross / Cultures: Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in English, 2009, Vol 100, p17
- ISSN
0924-1426
- Publication type
Article