Description |
xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 233-239. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index. |
Contents |
Emergence of the celluloid maiden -- The celluloid princess. Death, gratitude, and the squaw man's wife : the celluloid princess from 1908 to 1931 -- White-painted lady : the 1950s celluloid princess -- The sexualized maiden. What lies beneath the surface : the sexualized maiden of the 1940s -- The only good Indian is a dead Indian : the sexualized maiden of the 1950s and 1960s -- The hybrid celluloid maiden. Free love and violence : "going Native ' with the celluloid maiden in the 1970s -- Ghosts and vanishing Indian women : death of the celluloid maiden in the 1990s -- Into the twenty-first century |
Subject |
Indian women in motion pictures.
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Indian women in motion pictures. |
ISBN |
081312414X hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780813124148 hardcover alkaline paper |
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