Native Americans In Hollywood Films Essay
Depiction of Native Americans and African Americans in Hollywood Films
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A person can use film, television, music, art, and literature to retrace practices within the society. Since the discovery of motion pictures in the 19th and 20th century, films have been a powerful tool, with films serving as escapist fantasies, enabling viewers to enter surprising worlds and experience colorful and wild characters (Holtzman & Sharpe, 2014). Films have also been utilized for conveying truths about humanity and the society that are easily taken in in dictional formats (Holtzman & Sharpe, 2014). Controversial topics such as war, love, and the nature of humans have all been dug into with films being used as tools for disseminating these topics into the awareness of the public. With the emergence of popular culture and the mass media came the rise of a collective awareness that could be shared by individuals across the globe, as opposed to individuals of a particular culture depending on specific history and their own ancestry (Holtzman & Sharpe, 2014). The paper aims at discussing the stereotypical depiction of Native …show more content…
In addition, realistic and whole portrayals of Native Americans and their stories have been widely misrepresented in Hollywood films. American natives in the 20th century movies have ranged from stereotypes such as bloodthirsty, noble savage to the raging beast (Leavitt, Covarrubias, Perez, & Fryberg, 2015). Still other Native American casts, be they neutral, villains, or heroines, have been depicted as flat characters with no or little character development or unique
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Date
Introduction
A person can use film, television, music, art, and literature to retrace practices within the society. Since the discovery of motion pictures in the 19th and 20th century, films have been a powerful tool, with films serving as escapist fantasies, enabling viewers to enter surprising worlds and experience colorful and wild characters (Holtzman & Sharpe, 2014). Films have also been utilized for conveying truths about humanity and the society that are easily taken in in dictional formats (Holtzman & Sharpe, 2014). Controversial topics such as war, love, and the nature of humans have all been dug into with films being used as tools for disseminating these topics into the awareness of the public. With the emergence of popular culture and the mass media came the rise of a collective awareness that could be shared by individuals across the globe, as opposed to individuals of a particular culture depending on specific history and their own ancestry (Holtzman & Sharpe, 2014). The paper aims at discussing the stereotypical depiction of Native …show more content…
In addition, realistic and whole portrayals of Native Americans and their stories have been widely misrepresented in Hollywood films. American natives in the 20th century movies have ranged from stereotypes such as bloodthirsty, noble savage to the raging beast (Leavitt, Covarrubias, Perez, & Fryberg, 2015). Still other Native American casts, be they neutral, villains, or heroines, have been depicted as flat characters with no or little character development or unique