The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film is dedicated to bringing the work of Indigenous filmmakers around the world to a larger audience. By giving voice to transnational and transcultural Indigenous perspectives, this collection makes a significant contribution to the discourse on Indigenous filmmaking and provides an accessible overview of the contemporary state of Indigenous film.
Comprising 37 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into six clear parts:
- Decolonial Intermedialities and Revisions of Western Media
- Colonial Histories, Trauma, Resistances
- Indigenous Lands, Communities, Bodies
- Queer Cultures and Border Crossings
- Youth Cultures and Emancipation
- Art, Comedy, and Music.
Within these sections Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts from around the world examine various aspects of Indigenous film cultures, analyze the works of Indigenous directors and producers worldwide, and focus on readings (contextual, historical, political, aesthetic, and activist) of individual Indigenous films. The Handbook specifically explores Indigenous film in Canada, Mexico, the United States, Central and South America, Northern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and the Philippines.
This richly interdisciplinary volume is an essential resource for students and scholars of Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, Area Studies, Film and Media Studies, Feminist and Queer Studies, History, and anyone interested in Indigenous cultures and cinema.
A significant contribution to the discourse on Indigenous filmmaking and provides an accessible overview of the contemporary state of Indigenous film. Essential reading for students and scholars of Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Feminist & Queer Studies, and anyone interested in Indigenous cultures and cinema.
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"Comprehensive in scope and profound in intellectual incisiveness, this book explores, in very accessible writing, a 'global' Indigenous cinema that needs more visibility. A must-read for film scholars and students."
Anthony Adah, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA
Introduction: Indigenous Filmmaking throughout the World Ernie
Blackmore, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Gay Pearson, and Corina Wieser-Cox Part 1:
Decolonial Intermedialities and Revisions of Western Media
1.
MooNaHaTihKaaSiWew / Unearthing Spirit Framework Jules A. Koostachin
2.
Telling Time: Confronting Ethnography in Alanis Obomsawins Documentaries Tia
Wong
3. Barry Barclays Ngti (1987) and Merata Mitas Mauri (1988): A
Whakapapa/Genealogy of Indigenous Mori Fiction Film in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Deborah Walker-Morrison
4. Waru (2017) and Vai (2019): South Pacific Sisters
Doing It for Themselves, Each Other, and Their Communities Marina Alofagia
McCartney and Deborah Walker-Morrison
5. We are not Dead: Decolonizing the
Frame Jeni Thornley
6. Acts of Translation in Ten Canoes Corinn Columpar Part
2: Colonial Histories, Trauma, Resistances
7. Yolanda Cruzs 2501 Migrants: A
Journey: Possibilities and Limitations of Cultural Activism Annette L.
Rukwied
8. Recipes for Survival: Muffins for Granny and the Legacy of
Residential Schooling Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson
9. Its Going to be
Chief: Sterlin Harjos Barking Water Lee Schweninger
10. For Spirits, Time
Doesnt Exist: Haunting and Homecoming in Chris Eyres Thriller Imprint
Manuela Müller
11. Pathfinder and Pathbreaker: Nils Gaup's Ofelas as
Indigenous Cinema Martin Holtz
12. 'The World is Disintegrating' Eco-trauma
and the Representation of Mining in Catriona McKenzies Satellite Boy
Victoria Herche
13. Two Parts Broken Heart and One Part Hope: Violence and
Historical Trauma in Skins, Bearwalker and Once Were Warriors Wendy Gay
Pearson Part 3: Indigenous Lands, Communities, Bodies
14. Generational Bonds,
Language and Community in the Films of Angeles Cruz and Nicolas Rojas
Itandehui Jansen
15. Making Accented Indigenous Transnational Community
Cinema: Tiempo de Lluvia/In Times of Rain by Itandehui Jansen Deborah Shaw
16. Therapeutic and Bodily Politics in Busong (Palawan Fate) Adam Szymanski
17. The Land Has Eyes: Letter from the Island Rotuma Gerd Becker
18.
Romancing the Land: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen and the Circumvention of
Colonial Landscapes Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove
19. After the Apocalypse:
Self, Place and Movement in Liselotte Wajstedts Documentaries Stefan
Holander
20. Nuummioq and Anori Greenlanders and Land, Mythic Past,
Modernity Kerstin Knopf Part 4: Queer Cultures and Border Crossings
21.
Constellating Bakla Desire in Auraeus Solitos The Blossoming of Maximo
Oliveros Christian Ylagan
22. Captive Audience: Erotohistoriography in Kent
Monkmans Group of Seven Inches Kevin Shaw
23. Moving Again: Realism,
(Indigi)Queer Hope, and Fire Song" Josh Morrison
24. Power in the Blood:
Boundary Crossing and Bloodletting in Randy Redroads The Doe Boy Joshua B.
Nelson
25. Transgressing the Borders of Being: Hacktivism, Posthumanism and
Technological Paradoxes in Alex Riveras Sleep Dealer Corina Wieser-Cox Part
5: Youth Cultures and Emancipation
26. Rhymes for Young Ghouls: The Stolen
Letter André Dudemaine
27. It is No Longer a Guilt Game: Anger, Empowerment
and Intercultural Dialogue in Tracy Deers Mohawk Girls Natįlia Pinazza
28.
Yandiawish: The Great Turtles Account of Mesnak Guy Sioui Durand
29. Who We
Are Now: Ińupiaq Youth On the Ice Joanna Hearne
30. Running Up Heartbreak
Hill on The Edge of America: The Struggle to Make Life Liveable Ralph
Armbruster-Sandoval
31. Establishing Global Affinities in Katja Gauriloffs
Canned Dreams (2012) Kate Moffat
32. Schism of a Nation: Echoes of Silenced
Voices in Toomelah Emme Devonish Part 6: Art, Comedy, and Music
33. Shelley
Niros Kissed by Lightning and its Painted Series Peacemakers Journey as
Forms of Indigenous Resistance through Artistic Expression Stephanie Pratt
34. Reggae Sounds in Maori Cinema Nele Rein
35. Joints, Rocks, and Slapstick:
Decolonizing Humor in Stone Bros Geoffrey Rodoreda
36. Singing the Songs of
our Era in Bran Nue Day Felicity Collins
37. Love and Affection, to the
Bone: Identity and Reconciliation in Wayne Blairs The Sapphires Susan Knabe
and Ernie Blackmore. Filmography Index
Ernie Blackmore is a retired Lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Kerstin Knopf is Professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Wendy Gay Pearson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Corina Wieser-Cox is a Ph.D. candidate in Queer Mexican and Latinx film and research assistant at the University of Bremen, Germany.