Native American and Indigenous Media

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Research Article| April 01 2018 Native American and Indigenous Media Joanna Hearne Joanna Hearne Joanna Hearne is director of digital storytelling in the School of Visual Studies and an associate professor of film studies in the English Department at the University of Missouri. She has published articles and book chapters on Indigenous film history, animation, digital media, documentary, silent film, and Westerns, and she guest edited the latest special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures on “Digital Indigenous Studies: Gender, Genre and New Media.” She has written two books about Indigenous film, Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western (SUNY Press, 2012) and Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising (University of Nebraska Press, 2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Feminist Media Histories (2018) 4 (2): 123–127. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.123 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Joanna Hearne; Native American and Indigenous Media. Feminist Media Histories 1 April 2018; 4 (2): 123–127. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.123 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFeminist Media Histories Search Keywords: fourth cinema, Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous media, visual sovereignty Of the films and videos screened at the 2017 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, 72 percent were made by Indigenous women directors; the work included feature films, documentaries, experimental films, new media, animation, games, digital stories, and virtual reality projects.1 This remarkable proportion is the exact inverse of the notoriously dismal numbers in Hollywood and the independent film industry; of independent films screened at high-profile festivals in the United States in 2016–17, 72 percent of those working in key behind-the-scenes roles were men.2 The surge and new visibility of Indigenous women's production registers a historic shift taking place in North America, and especially in Canada. Indigenous media scholarship makes visible the centrality of Indigenous images to film and media history not only through the study of screen representations, but also by recovering and re-recognizing the presence and participation of Indigenous performers, filmmakers, artists, and intellectuals. Scholars in... You do not currently have access to this content.