Film & TV

Filmmaker screens and briefly discusses the short Share the Wealth, and the documentary Weaving Worlds. Duration: 1:22:37.

Analyzes the 1992 Tri-Star Pictures release which breaks new ground on two fronts, an all Native American cast except the lead role, and use of a contemporary setting. Screenplay by John Fusco, directed by Michael Apted and produced by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and John Fusco.

Audio interview with Mi'kmaq director, Jeff Barnaby about his revenge fantasy thriller set in the 70's residential schools era. Duration: 15:03.

Writer, director and producer discusses his experiences while working for the National Film Board teaching film and video production in the North. Duration: 1:21:54.

Film highlights the artist Bill Reid and his explanations why cedar is the ideal material for making totem poles. Duration: 45:00.

Examines several films that highlight the relationship between whites, Aboriginal people and the road film genre.

Describes the filming and production of the 20th Century Fox film The Canadians, and American-style western about the Cypress Hills Massacre and the deployment of the NWMP. Notes several conflicts that occurred during production and at the premiers, as well a number of stereotypes and misrepresentations in the script itself. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 5.

Book Reviews of: Isuma: Inuit Video Art by Michael Robert Evans. The Fast Runner by Michael Robert Evans.

Book reviews of: Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing by Simon Ortiz. Full issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 139 to read reviews.

Social Work Thesis (MSW)--University of Manitoba, 2020.

Looks at a comedy program recorded by the CBC for National Aboriginal Day designed to look at the brightside of hardship and suffering. Article located by scrolling to page 12.

Comments on the 2007 Sâkêwêwak Artists' Collective's Storytellers Festival noting that the audience wasn't as large as past years but included more non-Aboriginal people than ever before. Article located by scrolling to page 16 and 18.

Describes a program that records the narratives of youths who were bullied, the films were shown to non-Aboriginal youth in an effort to address racism and its effects.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2002.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2014.

Compares and contrasts Sartre’s play and Harjo’s short film; focuses on the setting, characters, and themes of confinement and social / personal interaction.

Interview with a filmmaker who tells stories from an Aboriginal perspective. Duration: 5:20.

Book review of: Celluloid Indians by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Presents a video of Jason Chamakese and Robert Gladue performing, using flute, hand drum and singing, at the 7th annual Aboriginal Music Festival in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Discusses changes from 1929 to 2007 regarding Sami identity in Finnmark. Looks at the movie Lajla produced in 1929 comparing it to another version produced in 1937.

Film review of: Chasing Shakespeare directed by Norry Niven.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2005.

Review of: Children of the Crocodile film directed by Marsha Emerman.

Book review of: Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism by Davinia Thornley.

Brief bibliography lists general and Aboriginal-specific sources of literature on the genre. Current as of 2004.

Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2010.

[Department of Film and Media Studies]Thesis (Ph.D)--Arizona State University, 2017. Focuses Sydney Freeland's Drunktown's Finest.

Offers a critical review of the documentary The Lost Civilizations of North America, examining the way ‘civilization’ is defined and the evidence of pre-contact trade and settlement in North America presented in the film.

Offers a critical review of the documentary The Lost Civilizations of North America; examines and responds to claims make in the documentary about DNA evidence of pre-Columbian contact between Indigenous peoples of North America and those from other continents.

Offers a critical review of the documentary The Lost Civilizations of North America; examines specific artifacts referred to in the film and discusses their authenticity and/or controversy surrounding them.

Brief profile of Steven Keewatin Sanderson, a Plains Cree illustrator, who is one of the few First Nations comic book artists.

Looks at films as social barometers of attitudes and ideologies; films discussed: Dances With Wolves, Black Robe, Thunderheart, Clearcut, Loyalties, Company of Strangers, Where the Spirit Lives, Spirit Rider, and Powwow Highway.

Comments on three projects which represent the power of imagining and bringing into existence alternative realities and alternative futures.

Film criticism which discusses Lightning’s movie as an act of resistance to colonial backlash to reconciliation, and to settler narratives regarding Indian Residential Schools.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of New Mexico, 2010.

Artists speak about their life and work in context of form, image and consequences. Duration:1.33.17.

Bibliography of Indigenous artwork and critical engagement.

Examines how an Inuit photographer and filmmaker have attempted to dispel common stereotypes about the Inuit people and preserve and enhance Inuit culture.

Interview with the actor/writer focuses on his role in the film version of Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Communication Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2013.

Examines Calder’s stop-frame animated feature film in the context of animation, ecocinema, and Indigenous studies; focuses on theme of hybridity and métissage.

Case study indicates that Native American viewers interpret a western genre film very differently than non-Native viewers.

Looks at a female Native American filmmaker who is reaching Native American youth through film.

Teacher's guide for use with documentary which looks at the Iroquois Nationals, a lacrosse team from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, their efforts to win a gold medal at the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, and the controversy which erupted when they traveled with Haudenosaunee Confederacy passports.

Discusses commonalities around "the sharing of a cultural technology that functions very differently according to whether it is engaged esoterically or exoterically -- by members of the communities represented in the films or by others."