Raises interesting issues and challenges readers to consider the complex realities of American Indian cultures and Indian/non-Indian relations that major motion pictures often fail to communicate.
~American Graduate
Important and groundbreaking work.
~Bookman News
Enables readers to construct a cinematic chronology of the Hollywood Indian and to comprehend the larger cultural forces at work interpreting the Indian-white past on screen.
~Choice
Rollins and O'Connor have skillfully blended a variety of thoughtful veiwpoints.
~Chronicles of Oklahoma
A collection of quality essays, put together by two of the leading experts in this particular topic area.
~Communication Booknotes Quarterly
Hollywood's representation of Indians is a subject which up till now has generated a lot more heat than light. This welcome new collection of essays covers a lot of ground... including a valuable piece on Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans and earlier versions of Cooper's 'Leatherstocking Tales,' a surprisingly and convincingly sympathetic essay on Dances with Wolves, and an informative account of Pocahontas.
~Edward Buscombe
Will become the standard source for reference for an important subject, not only in American contemporary popular culture, but for evolving attitudes in a new century.
~Film and History
The essays provide valuable ways to think about the meaning and impact of Hollywood's portrayal of American Indian characters.
~Great Plains Quarterly
Offers an engaging and timely update to previous critical anthologies.
~H-Net Book Review
An engaging and timely update to previous critical anthologies.
~Journal of American Culture
The value of this collection resides in the concentrated attention it gives to the portrayal of Native Americans on film.
~Journal of American Ethnic History
The essays are solid pieces that place the films in a proper historical and artistic context.
~Journal of American History
The essays add to the growing literature on films about American Indians, and individually, they provide interesting insights into the process of movie-making and viewing.
~North Carolina Historical Review
A welcome contribution to the lively and timely debate on the representation of ethnic minorities in the media.
~Zeitscrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik
An excellent set of essays on the subject.
~Choice
