Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film

249 Pages·2010·1.679 MB·English

by  Corinn Columpar

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CORINN COLUMPAR
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The Fourth World on Film
Corinn Columpar
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Copyright © 2010 by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
A portion of chapter 3 was originally published in “‘Tak-
ing Care of Her Green Stone Wall’: The Experience of
Space in Once Were Warriors,” Quarterly Review of Film
and Video 24, no. 5 (October 2007). Lyrics of songs from
the soundtrack of the film Stryker are reprinted with
permission from Arbor Records.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Columpar, Corinn, 1970–
Unsettling sights : the fourth world on film /
Corinn Columpar.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2962-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8093-2962-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-8573-7 (ebook)
ISBN-10: 0-8093-8573-2 (ebook)
1. Indigenous films—History and criticism.
2. Indigenous peoples in motion pictures. I. Title.
PN1995.9.I49C65 2010
791.43´63529—dc22 2009023079
Printed on recycled paper.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum
requirements of American National Standard for In-
formation Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed
Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1992. ∞
For Frederick

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List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction
The Cinema of Aboriginality as Transnational Phenomenon 1
Part One
Making Contact, Producing Difference 29
1. Birth Pangs: Constructing the Proto-national Hero 34
2. Swan Songs: Speaking the Aboriginal Subject 76
Part Two
Mapping the Fourth World 111
3. Land Claims: Dramas of Deterritorialization 116
4. Speech Acts: Toward a “Postcolonial” Poetics 151
Afterword 181
Filmography 185
Notes 191
Bibliography 203
Index 215

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Undercutting the ethnographic artifact in The Journals of Knud
Rasmussen xiii
The Proposition implicating spectators (and itself) in the brutality
on display 48
Maori man mimicking Stewart in The Piano 70
William’s, and our, encounter with the Makah in Dead Man 95
Type of contact at hand in The New World 100
Home as site of intricate invasions in Once Were Warriors 138
Home as site of transformation in Stryker 147
Voula saying to Spiro, “Let me tell you about Immelda,” in beDevil 165
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