The Hollywood Indian Stereotype: The Cinematic Othering and Assimilation of Native Americans at the Turn of the 20th Century

• Published in: Angles
• Main Author: Berny, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur 2020
• Subjects: Amérindiens; Indien d’Hollywood; noble indien; sauvage; altérité; Autre; stéréotypes; Soi; frontière; Ouest sauvage; Western; industrie culturelle; assimilation; miscégénation; Curtis Edward S; Vidor King; Griffith D.W; Girard René; Native American; Hollywood Indian; noble Indian; savage; Other; Self; Frontier; Wild West; culture industry; misrepresentation; hisphilso; hist; Griffith; Indian; Northwest Passage; Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/angles/331

This paper intends to demonstrate that the misrepresentation of Native Americans in cinema furthers the logic of differentiation at play in popular culture, focalizing on an irreconcilable enemy image upon which the American self is constructed. The Indian looking glass magnifies America’s lack of s...