Open AccessTwo versions of the road back home: native cinema in the USA and Canada
Author(s) -
Márgara Avebach
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
ilha do desterro
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-8026
pISSN - 0101-4846
DOI - 10.5007/2175-8026.2008n54p145
Subject(s) - thriving , movie theater , diversity (politics) , theme (computing) , representation (politics) , history , native american , film director , media studies , art history , sociology , ethnology , anthropology , social science , political science , law , computer science , politics , operating system
Native cinema is still a new on North-American screens and working to establish the sharp differences between Western America and the “Thirld World” reality on the reservations for Native Americans remain the poorest minorities in the US and in Canada. It is also new as the space whereaboriginal people shave control of their filmic representation, showing, for one, the diversity of tribal cultures preserved and thriving. The films analysed are Powwow Highway and Medicine River, both based on novels of the same title by David Seals and Thomas King, respectively. The theme is avery dear one to Native Literature: the trip back to one´s community and the figure of the trices as mediator or guide of this return