Alanis Obomsawin

Author : Randolph Lewis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803280458

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Alanis Obomsawin by Randolph Lewis Pdf

In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television. In this book, the first devoted to any Native filmmaker, Obomsawin receives her due as the central figure in the development of indigenous media in North America. ø Incorporating history, politics, and film theory into a compelling narrative, Randolph Lewis explores the life and work of a multifaceted woman whose career was flourishing long before Native films such as Smoke Signals reached the screen. He traces Obomsawin?s path from an impoverished Abenaki reserve in the 1930s to bohemian Montreal in the 1960s, where she first found fame as a traditional storyteller and singer. Lewis follows her career as a celebrated documentary filmmaker, citing her courage in covering, at great personal risk, the 1991 Oka Crisis between Mohawk warriors and Canadian soldiers. We see how, since the late 1960s, Obomsawin has transformed documentary film, reshaping it for the first time into a crucial forum for sharing indigenous perspectives. Through a careful examination of her work, Lewis proposes a new vision for indigenous media around the globe: a ?cinema of sovereignty? based on what Obomsawin has accomplished.

Author : Peter O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736813811

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Dream Visions by Peter O'Brien Pdf

Art book covering the work of Indigenous artist, Alanis Obomsawin. She has been a unique and special leader in the development of Indigenous thought, scholarship, accuracy, and activism, doing it through the arts, and inspiring really every facet of the Indigenous artistry of today, from fashion to film-making. An activist who got the facts right first, and then found multiple ways to distribute that knowledge to the rest of us, she researched it from the inside: she wrote it; she filmed it; she sang about it; she directed it; she developed it; and she got it seen - when most people would have denied any of that was possible, let alone to be accomplished by an Indigenous woman.

Author : Richard William Hill,Hila Peleg,Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791379234

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Alanis Obomsawin by Richard William Hill,Hila Peleg,Haus der Kulturen der Welt Pdf

One of today’s most important documentary filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin has dedicated her life’s work to shining a light on the injustices experienced by Canada’s Indigenous peoples. This retrospective monograph features an extensive interview with Obomsawin and includes images and written reflections on her entire career, including her most recent series devoted to the rights of Indigenous children. Never shying away from controversy, Obomsawin’s films have played a critical role in exposing ongoing systemic bias toward Indigenous populations—from fishing rights and education to health care and treaty violations. Obomsawin is also a graphic artist, and she incorporates her often dream-inspired etchings and prints into many of her films. The book includes illuminating essays exploring Obomsawin’s practice and mission as well as personal commentary from collaborators, archival material, and photographs from the filmmaker’s personal life and professional practice. As Obomsawin approaches her ninth decade of life—fifth behind the camera—this beautifully illustrated record of her astounding body of work is an inspiring celebration of the power of film to change the course of history. Authors include Karrmen Crey, Richard Fung, Monika Kin Gagnon, Candice Hopkins, Jessica L. Horton, Elizabeth Povinelli, Lisa Steele, and Jesse Wente.

Author : Kass Banting,Brenda Longfellow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0802079644

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Gendering the Nation by Kass Banting,Brenda Longfellow Pdf

The definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film making in Canada.

Author : Professor Beaver
Publisher : Professor Beaver
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228235243

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Alanis Obomsawin - Filmmaker, Singer & Storyteller of the Abenaki Nation Canadian History for Kids True Canadian Heroes - Indigenous People Of Canada Edition by Professor Beaver Pdf

Alanis Obomsawin used the art of documentary film making to bring into public consciousness the plight of the indigenous people of Canada. As a member of the Abenaki Nation herself, Alanis encountered bullying and the promotion of European cultural superiority in her community. She then used that experience as a stepping stone to becoming an award-winning filmmaker. Read her story today.

Author : Eleanor Wachtel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Authors
ISBN : UCSC:32106011501944

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Writers & Company by Eleanor Wachtel Pdf

Author : Gary Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1772601721

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Indigenous Filmmakers and Actors by Gary Robinson Pdf

Author : M. Elise Marubbio,Eric L. Buffalohead
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813140346

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Native Americans on Film by M. Elise Marubbio,Eric L. Buffalohead Pdf

“An essential book for courses on Native film, indigenous media, not to mention more general courses . . . A very impressive and useful collection.” —Randolph Lewis, author of Navajo Talking Picture The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years, Indigenous filmmakers have both challenged these representations and moved past them, offering their own distinct forms of cinematic expression. Native Americans on Film draws inspiration from the Indigenous film movement, bringing filmmakers into an intertextual conversation with academics from a variety of disciplines. The resulting dialogue opens a myriad of possibilities for engaging students with ongoing debates: What is Indigenous film? Who is an Indigenous filmmaker? What are Native filmmakers saying about Indigenous film and their own work? This thought-provoking text offers theoretical approaches to understanding Native cinema, includes pedagogical strategies for teaching particular films, and validates the different voices, approaches, and worldviews that emerge across the movement. “Accomplished scholars in the emerging field of Native film studies, Marubbio and Buffalohead . . . focus clearly on the needs of this field. They do scholars and students of Native film a great service by reprinting four seminal and provocative essays.” —James Ruppert, author of Meditation in Contemporary Native American Literature “Succeed[s] in depicting the complexities in study, teaching, and creating Native film . . . Regardless of an individual’s level of knowledge and expertise in Native film, Native Americans on Film is a valuable read for anyone interested in this topic.” —Studies in American Indian Literatures

Author : Chris Gittings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134764853

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Canadian National Cinema by Chris Gittings Pdf

Canadian National Cinema explores the idea of the nation across Canada's film history, from early films of colonisation and white settlement such as The Wheatfields of Canada and Back to God's Country, to recent films like Nô, LE Confessional Mon Oncle Antoine, Grey Fox, Highway 61, Kanehsatake, and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.

Author : Julie Burelle
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810138988

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Encounters on Contested Lands by Julie Burelle Pdf

In Encounters on Contested Lands, Julie Burelle employs a performance studies lens to examine how instances of Indigenous self-representation in Québec challenge the national and identity discourses of the French Québécois de souche—the French-speaking descendants of white European settlers who understand themselves to be settlers no more but rather colonized and rightfully belonging to the territory of Québec. Analyzing a wide variety of performances, Burelle brings together the theater of Alexis Martin and the film L'Empreinte, which repositions the French Québécois de souche as métis, with protest marches led by Innu activists; the Indigenous company Ondinnok's theater of repatriation; the films of Yves Sioui Durand, Alanis Obomsawin, and the Wapikoni Mobile project; and the visual work of Nadia Myre. These performances, Burelle argues, challenge received definitions of sovereignty and articulate new ones while proposing to the province and, more specifically, to the French Québécois de souche, that there are alternative ways to imagine Québec's future and remember its past. The performances insist on Québec's contested nature and reframe it as animated by competing sovereignties. Together they reveal how the "colonial present tense" and "tense colonial present" operate in conjunction as they work to imagine an alternative future predicated on decolonization. Encounters on Contested Lands engages with theater and performance studies while making unique and needed contributions to Québec and Canadian studies, as well as to Indigenous and settler-colonial studies.

Author : Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm,Sonny Assu,Brandon Mitchell,Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley,Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley,David A. Robertson,Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair,Jen Storm,Richard Van Camp,Katherena Vermette,Chelsea Vowel
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781553797838

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This Place by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm,Sonny Assu,Brandon Mitchell,Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley,Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley,David A. Robertson,Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair,Jen Storm,Richard Van Camp,Katherena Vermette,Chelsea Vowel Pdf

Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact. This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter initiative. With this $35M initiative, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.

Author : Miranda J. Brady,John M.H. Kelly
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774835114

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We Interrupt This Program by Miranda J. Brady,John M.H. Kelly Pdf

We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics or interventions in art, film, television, and journalism to disrupt Canada’s national narratives and rewrite them from Indigenous perspectives. Accounts of strategically chosen moments such as survivor testimonies at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission combined with conversations with CBC reporter Duncan McCue and artists such as Kent Monkman bring to life Brady and Kelly’s powerful argument that media tactics can be employed to change Canadian institutions from within. As articulations of Indigenous sovereignty, these tactics can also spark new forms of political and cultural expression in Indigenous communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Black Dog Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1911164694

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Kent Monkman by Anonim Pdf

Kent Monkman's new, large-scale project takes the viewer on a journey through Canada's history that starts in the present and takes us back to 150 years before Confederation. With its entry points in the harsh urban environment of Winnipeg's north end, and contemporary life on the reserve, Kent Monkman: Shame and Prejudice, A Story of Resilience takes us all the way back to the period of New France and the fur trade. The Rococo masterpiece The Swing by Jean-Honore ́ Fragonard has been reinterpreted as an installation with Monkman's alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, in a beaver trimmed baroque dress, swinging back and forth between the Generals Wolfe and Montcalm. The book includes Monkman's own paintings, drawings and sculptural works, in dialogue with historical artefacts and art works borrowed from museum and private collections from across Canada.

Author : Frederick Matthew Wiseman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1584650591

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The Voice of the Dawn by Frederick Matthew Wiseman Pdf

History of the Abenaki Indians of Vermont.

Author : Barbara M. Freeman
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554580903

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Beyond Bylines by Barbara M. Freeman Pdf

Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s rights of their eras. To do so, some of them adopted conventional feminine identities, while others refused to conform altogether, openly and defiantly challenging the gender expectations of their day. The book consists of a series of case studies of the women in question as they grappled with the concerns close to their hearts: higher education for women, healthy dress reforms, the vote, equal opportunities at work, abortion, lesbianism, and Aboriginal women’s rights. Their media reflected their respective eras: intellectual magazines, daily and weekly newspapers, radio, feminist public relations, alternative women’s periodicals, and documentary film made for television. Barbara Freeman takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining biography, history, and communication studies to demonstrate how their use of different media both enabled and limited these women in their ability to be daring advocates for gender equality. She shows how a number of these women were linked through the generations by their memberships in activist women’s organizations.