University Catalog 2014-2015

University of Colorado Boulder

ETHN-2203 (3) American Indians in Film

Examines images of American Indians in films produced by, and about, Native peoples. Follows the creation of "the Hollywood Indian" from still-photography to contemporary motion pictures. Films are analyzed within historical, social, and artistic contexts, and examined in terms of the impact their images have exerted upon American society at large and Native communities in particular.