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What happens when a Native or indigenous person turns a video camera on his or her own culture? Are the resulting images different from what a Westernized filmmaker would create, and, if so, in what ways? How does the use of a non-Native art-making medium, specifically video or film, affect the aesthetics of the Native culture?
These are some of the questions that underlie this rich study of Native American aesthetics, art, media, and identity. Steven Leuthold opens with a theoretically informed discussion of the core concepts of aesthetics and indigenous culture and then turns to detailed examination of the work of American Indian documentary filmmakers, including George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva, Jr. He shows how Native filmmaking incorporates traditional concepts such as the connection to place, to the sacred, and to the cycles of nature. While these concepts now find expression through Westernized media, they also maintain continuity with earlier aesthetic productions. In this way, Native filmmaking serves to create and preserve a sense of identity for indigenous people.
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One of the clearest points emerging from this analysis of Native American and Western cultural identities is the understanding that communally derived identity underpins the aesthetic of indigenous artists' production and differs radically from the individualist ethos of the West. Leuthold (Syracuse Univ.) folds a number of very interesting approaches into this study--anthropology, film studies, art criticism, and American Indian--but ultimately focuses on aesthetics. Trying to serve so many masters, Leuthold has difficulty satisfying any. This seems to be a book in search of an audience. Philosophers approaching the text will be familiar with most of his discussion of aesthetics; scholars of Native America will be familiar with the tribal background. The first third of the book provides the theoretical bases for Leuthold's discussion, so the examination of primary texts almost seems secondary; the chapter on Native identity and the media is regretfully brief. However, the volume contains a useful discussion of several well-known documentaries--In the White Man's Image and Surviving Columbus--and of the relationship between performance and identity. One of the first serious explorations of this terrain, this noteworthy book points to the difficulty in ethnic studies of weaving together the many disciplines necessary to examine a subject holistically. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty. J. Tharp; University of Wisconsin Colleges
目录
List of Illustrations |
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
1 Aesthetics and the Expression of Identity |
2 Representation and Reception |
3 Is There "Art" in Indigenous Aesthetics? |
4 Native American Identities and Media |
5 Expressive Antecedents of Native American Documentary |
6 An Indigenous Media Aesthetic? |
7 Visual Arts Documentaries |
8 Performance Contexts and Collective Identity |
9 Indigenous Aesthetics of Place |
Notes |
Filmography |
Bibliography |
Index |