Title Information

Title

An American Accented Cinema: Indigenous-Centered Road Movies

Abstract

Motivated by a desire to assess both the positive and negative cultural legacies of classical Hollywood cinema, this thesis focuses on a genre descendant of the classic western: the road movie. More specifically, inspired and contextualized by Hamid Naficy’s theory of ‘accented cinema,’ it will explore a subgenre of the road movie that features indigenous characters and narratives. Three indigenous-centered road movies – Powwow Highway, Smoke Signals, and Barking Water – help me define a specific type of accented cinema which has emerged in United States. Positioned as cultural and social texts, these films can be considered “accented” by the ways in which they employ accepted modes of production and address the themes of nostalgia, border consciousness, and journeys.

Name: Personal

Name Part

Falkenberg, Elizabeth

Role

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creator

Name: Personal

Name Part

Copjec, Joan

Role

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thesis advisor

Name: Personal

Name Part

Thompson, Levi

Role

Role Term

reader

Name: Corporate

Name Part

Brown University. Modern Culture and Media

Role

Role Term: Text

sponsor

Origin Information

Copyright Date

2019

Type of Resource

text

Physical Description

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born digital

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English

Note: thesis

Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2019

Note (displayLabel="Concentration")

Modern Culture and Media

Genre (aat)

theses

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Topic

Indigenous peoples

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Topic

Indians of North America

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Topic

Film

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Topic

Feature films

Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/")

Topic

accent

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Topic

Motion pictures

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Topic

Smoke signals (Motion picture)

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Topic

american cinema

Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01312041")

Topic

California--Los Angeles--Hollywood

Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/")

Topic

road movie

Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01710329")

Topic

Road films

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Topic

Western films

Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00430512")

Topic

Eyre, Chris, 1969-

Identifier: DOI

10.26300/yyy9-ys49

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